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

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 is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

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

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

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.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . .

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

Give thanks to the most high.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.