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

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.

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

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.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.