It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?