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.

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

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.

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

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”

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.