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.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

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.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

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