In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

My knight, ” I said jokingly before I had a chance to stop myself. Too late I realized. ~Charlie~

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

I will show you the path to the spirit world.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.