All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

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.

Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).