And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes an….

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment..

There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we m….

[When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out o….

Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all bless….

The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience,….

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice..

We've formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what's going on. Yet claims to Tr….

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never ret….

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop..

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's..

You want to not have any problems..

Nothing holds us back but our thoughts..