Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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.
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
The real meditation is how you live your life.
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.