Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

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

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.