I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

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

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.