In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

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

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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.

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).

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.