Jon Kabat-Zinn

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

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

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.