"Mindfulness does not belong to Christianity, Buddhism, or Taoism, just as the breath we inhale and exhale does not belong to any one of us. Everywhere human beings have lived, we have needed to cultivate attention; whether it was for hunting, fashioning tools or clothes, or intellectual pursuits.

We have always needed compassion to live in harmony and enjoy our lives.

Humans from every culture have developed wisdom to ask the big questions of life.

These universal practices have been cultivated throughout millennia -

or, we may say, they have cultivated us."

- Daniel Rechtschaffen