"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings." - Stevie Nicks

 "In our daily life, we lose ourselves all the time. The body is here, but the mind is somewhere else - in the past, in the future, carried away by anger, jealousy, fear, & so on. The mind is not really present with the body. We are not really here. To be truly here, we have to bring the body back to the mind, & the mind back to the body. We have to bring about what is called the "unity of body & mind." This is very important in Buddhist meditation. Often, the body & the mind go in different directions, & so we are not fully here. Therefore, we have to do what is necessary for them to come back together again. Buddhism teaches us methods for doing this, such as mindfulness of the breath."

Thich Nhat Hanh