Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

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.

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.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.