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

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.

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.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.