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

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.

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

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.