Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking... →
R. A. Salvatore
Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their... →
Sharon Salzberg
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find... →
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension... →
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right... →
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and... →
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a... →
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our... →
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud.... →
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young... →
Xavier Samuel