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

Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.

Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

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.

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.