How is that someone who wants to “live life to the fullest” ends up in a cloistered, silent meditation session or retreat? Well, no matter how much you turn up the amplitude or modulate the frequency of life experience, there will always be not enough. Thus we have to seize the day not by doing something extraordinary but by finding extraordinariness in the ordinary. That requires us to pay more and more attention -- and you cultivate attention by paying really minute attention. That, in turn, requires the practice of meditation.