Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

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Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

A new future requires a new past.

To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.