Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.