Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.