From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

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

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.