Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside... We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.