From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.