Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.

It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

It is very important to keep the communication lines flowing so that you develop mutual admiration and respect.

I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

You know where nice people end up? On welfare.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.