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.

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.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

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

People say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point."

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.