Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody's having conversations anymore. They're sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.

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