The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

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

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. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.