Don’t be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Patience has all the time it needs.

In this world, we are surrounded by fast-paced, empty static energy. They’re like the empty calories of the soul. You have empty calories for your body, like a bag of potato chips for example, then...

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. – Don Juan

He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead,...

The innumerable phenomena of life are temporary manifestations of LifeParticles.Once we know that everything comes and goes in a flux of LifeParticles, we can watch ourselves and the world with tranquility.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

In the 1991 movie, City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: “One.”Choose one...

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place...

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it’s time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Sometimes we don’t need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Loneliness is one of the afflictions of modern life. It...

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has...

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Understand: I don’t ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater…in all things, in all circumstances.

First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish...

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

Compassion doesn’t arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else’s fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

How heron comesIt is a negligence of the mindnot to notice how at duskheron comes to the pond andstands there in his death robes, perfectservant of the system, hungry, his eyesfull of attention, his wingspure...

As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns.

With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more...

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects...

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest...

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Mindfulness describes a “state of becoming” that places the individual beyond judgment and definition.

An open beginner’s mind is a powerful tool for developing patience.

The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati, “mindfulness” or “awareness”, and upaṭṭhāna, with the u of the latter term dropped by vowel elision. The Pāli term upaṭṭhāna literally means “placing near”,...

The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply accessing equanimity throughout the vicissitudes of life. Continuous learning helps us to stay...

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.

Deep inside of you is a ‘Guru’ with the wisdom of the entire Universe!

Hope, positive wonders.

Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I...

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and...

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.