Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

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.

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

When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.