It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

Dare to dream big. Never fear to fail. Take actions with love.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.