Take the time [you] need to prepare the body for meditation. By doing so, we invite the breath to become our closest ally—one we can rely on to inform us about and eventually lead us back to the spaciousness right here and now.

If enlightenment were easy, everyone would be enlightened. Meditation has its own pace. The practice brings you just the challenges you need and are able to handle at the right time.

There is a humility to not-knowing that keeps us curious, alert, and humble.

Your thoughts will never stop. Just always come back to the breath. As long as you can do that, you’re meditating.

Impermanence should end up being a feeling, not just an intellectual understanding.

Buddhists have a role to play … in creating a different vision of America that is from the start about multiplicity and not singularity, from the start about interdependence.