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.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

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

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.