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

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

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