Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

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

If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.