Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

People say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point."

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

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.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.