In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

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

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.