Life is painful, suffering is optional..

If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible dr….

I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in car….

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace..

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in..

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the prese….

Being silent for me doesn't require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, "receiving in a balanced, noncombative way ….

Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneousl….

What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that….

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control..

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be ….

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the peopl….

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life….

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that..

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose..

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Impo….

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend..

If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater tha….

The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different from how….

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition ….

We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the o….