The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.