Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.