Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

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

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

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.