“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Fear and anxiety are consequences of your imagination running wild. You are suffering a situation that may never happen.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.

All the scars I hide fearfully, you see; counting them carefully with your lips, and telling me they are beautiful.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

At the heart of all men suffering lies the absence of safety, and from that absence, fear is born.