You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

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.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.