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

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

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

The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.