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

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.