Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.

If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.