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

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.

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

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

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

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