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,…

- Steve Hagen

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

- Steve Hagen

[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…

- Steve Hagen

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…

- Steve Hagen

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

- Steve Hagen

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…

- Steve Hagen

You want to not have any problems.

- Steve Hagen

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…

- Steve Hagen

Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.

- Steve Hagen