While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...

I just remember that there were a couple of times I was dating somebody for a relatively long period of time, and by the time New Year’s came around and made its way to Valentine’s...

When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief...

We don’t want to make the wrong decision and increase (sea turtle) mortality. We’re going to do a ghost crab study.

Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one’s frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

I must refute the implication … that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape architect — unlike a landscape designer, nurseryman or gardener — must complete a rigorous education from an accredited university...

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double back and beat up on himself. He has seen the worst in himself...

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it....

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender,...

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me...

According to the court, there were no improprieties regarding honesty, expenses, gift giving; he just dismissed without merit all of those allegations. … I think the chancellor’s decision with regard to Mister Ovitz is rock...

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in...

I think the important thing, and the lesson to be learned from England, is that cautionary, very cautionary behavior and activity is mandated in this case.

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union,...

Changing the standards on the books is not the same as changing the meals themselves.