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

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.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

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

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

The real meditation is how you live your life.