1. Who am I? 2. Why am I here? 3. How shall I live?

Life is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart. Life is making room in my heart for compassion.

The Zen state is attainable through sinking deeply into consistent, daily effort, whether you pirouette, weld, build roads or drive buses.

Forgetting perfection, and accepting what is, opens a door between me and this moment. It connects me intimately with it. I am in the moment

Taking three conscious breaths gives you a mini holiday, a gap year, a sabbatical. It brings your day into focus.

If you paid attention in daily life to the same degree that you do while you dance, how rich your life would be.

The things you long for like freedom and peace, truth and true, abide in you. They are an integral part of your essential nature, available

Being fully present while you make a decision connects you to universal intelligence, which is far wiser and all-knowing than the contents o

But people need more than our words or thoughts. They need us. Our whole being. Our hands. Our feet. Our hearts.

I don’t need to book another 10-Day Silent Retreat. I just need to be still, look and listen. And keep my mouth shut.

The world needs a literal sun for life to be sustained, but the world also needs figurative suns — you and me — shining light and warmth.

Howard Thurman, theologian, philosopher and civil rights leader, wrote in Meditations of the Heart: Look out on life with quiet eyes.

Our inner light is our consciousness. It’s what we turn on when we stop living on autopilot. It spills out into the world through conscious

What if I listen better in the next twenty-four hours? What if I drop the illusion of who I think I am right now?

Witness yourself on this earth, in this body, in this time, experiencing this unique situation. Give yourself the gift of being present wit

It’s time I became aware of my thoughts, not carried away by them. It’s time I used them, rather than being abused by them.

The tree taught that lfe is full of happenings. Some seem sad and some happy. But they are just happenings running alongside each other.

Let’s be like clouds. Come as a response. Respond to what it. And, as a final physical response, go peacefully.

Interruptions highlight what we want to let go of, and what we want to continue to concentrate on. Interruptions help show us the way.

I have a book on my desk, bought new. It stares up at me accusingly, shouting “Read me! Read Me!" It's 'Poems That Make Grown Women Cry'.