The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind – that is the reason he is still.

Mindful living is an art. You do not have to be a monk or living in a monastery to practice mindfulness. You can practice it anytime, while driving your car or doing housework. Driving in...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us....

When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.

Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time”.

With mind distracted, never thinking, “Death is coming,”To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,And then to come out empty–it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman

Global citizenship means simply being willing to focus on the game, to notice the world and the people in it. It does not mean noticing your world, but the world. It means being conscious of...

Cooking gives you the opportunity to meet the things you eat. You can touch each carrot or olive and get to know its smell and texture.You can feel its weight and notice its color and...

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is...

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Create inclusion – with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things...

How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Mindfulness (present-moment awareness) is deliberately focusing our attention on our thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations and mental activity without losing awareness of what is happening in the present moment. It is essentially being in a state...

Much of the time the mind is wandering, either drawn to focus, ruminate, or push away unpleasant experiences, or chasing after stuff we like. But if we don’t practise being still, we are prone to...

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to...

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and...

Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in...

I used to size people up to see whether they were a good advert for meditation. Then at some point it clicked that there wasn’t a type of person they were going to become. They...

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

From ‘Creating True Peace’ by Thich Nhat HanhTo better understand the practise of protection, please study the Five Mindfulness Trainings in Chapter 3, particularly the third, sexual responsibility. By practising the Third Mindfulness Training, we...

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group...

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful…When we are not fixated on threat and...

We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of...

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment,understanding that in patience lies wisdom,knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

On the topic of exercise, “It’s just as important as brushing your teeth everyday, more important than watching TV or reading online or answering email. Make time for something so crucial to a good life.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week together, because Wally is not on morphine yet, because he has...

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.