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.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.