"... the point of mindful awareness isn’t to get really good at meditating; it’s to truly experience this life. It’s actually the simplest thing in the world. All we have to do is open our awareness to our present experience. What do we see? What do we hear?

What physical sensations do we notice? We don’t have to create a story around these experiences—we can just take them in, wordlessly, without the limiting filter of language ..."__(read more)