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.

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

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.

for every mile the feet gothe heart goes nine

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by.

Imagination needs to be fed.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.