How can you cultivate mindful attention in all facets of your life? According to Sylvia Boorstein, every aspect of your daily life is an opportunity for spiritual practice.

In this dialogue, you’ll discover how mindfulness — the balanced, curious, wholehearted attention to unfolding experience motivated by the intention to respond for the benefit of oneself and others — is the key to a just and compassionate world. You’ll find out how that clarity of intention and purpose elevates any everyday skill into the spiritual realm of contentment, wisdom, gratitude, and happiness.

Sylvia Boorstein is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and an author, psychotherapist, wife, mother, and grandmother. With a doctorate in psychology and a master’s in social welfare, she’s taught in colleges as a professor in residence and has been teaching both Vipassana and Metta meditation since 1985. Her many books include The Buddhist Path of Kindness and Happiness Is an Inside Job.