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?

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Societal transformation isn't going to happen in one month, one year, or even one lifetime. But we see it happen person by person in front of us, and we don't have to worry about the future if we're taking care of the present. In some sense, that's the best insurance policy we can have.

"Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.

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.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

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