Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is..

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable..

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

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….

Life is painful, suffering is optional..

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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

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

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….