Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

In Buddha’s opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs—is the best use of our human lives.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.