The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.

We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort.

We are the creation of love for the love.

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?

Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in silence, watching our steps, heads bowed. We were in a temple.

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

For getting lean and trying to get toned, it's not about having a low weight and maximising as many reps as possible.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.