Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

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

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?