“With meditation, my anxiety levels dropped considerably. It seems to me that the mind is fuel to the fire of fear. The mind can make us worry about things beyond their measure. And the great thing about meditation is that twice a day, the monkey mind just calms down. Meditation makes you see very clearly what goes on in your mind, its machinations. So, in some ways I see more of it—the low-level anxiety—because I’m more aware. And the high-level anxiety just calms down.”
“I noticed that part of the point of meditation is to return myself continually to the present moment. To watch how I have a tendency mentally to be thinking about something from the past, or projecting to something in the future. This kind of inability to just be present in the moment.”