Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Addiction is a symptom of not growing up.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

I'm not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde freckled girl from Kentucky.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.