When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.