Prolonged stressful experiences often blow away the practice right when it’s most needed.

Anything can be turned into fuel for the practice.

Enjoyable mental states can be just as challenging as unpleasant ones.

I noticed each bone and muscle and tendon and ligament collaborating to make it happen.

You don’t get “the hard stuff” from the teacher; you bring that in yourself.

How do we make ordinary life sacred again?

You can never anticipate what some future present moment will actually be like.

Sleepiness is a real obstacle in life, and it seems worthwhile to work with it.

By tapping back into my practice, I can prepare for the next situation.

Airplanes are great places for meditation.

It’s not even that one more sit matters. It’s keeping on sitting that matters.

It was surprisingly healing just to sit and be calm in the middle of the airport.

It’s not something you get, it’s something you do.

Sometimes I only start meditating after I meditate.