If you love too much, you lose yourself.If you love too little, you never find yourself.

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we’re open to rich sources of information we’ve been missing out on—information that can keep...

Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to...

Judgement is poverty.

It could be the sound of each name he knows/curling to ash in his chest’s aortic furnace one after another, year after year instructing him/in the patient work of letting go. Even still/there are things...

People in the midst of losing their patience are certainly experiencing as aspect of dukkha.

In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind.

Maybe”.

Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is...

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated...

You can only be liberated in your mind.Master your mind with positive thoughts.Change your mind, change your actions.

We can’t go from zero to sixty in a day or even a week when it comes to shifting our food-habit gears. We have to take baby steps, starting with an increasing awareness of our...

[Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the...

mystical” if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux…have the mind...

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If...

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of ‘being human’ and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially...

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

The Third Precept, to refrain from sexual misconduct, reminds us not to act out of sexual desire in such a way as to cause harm to another… The spirit of this precept asks us to...

We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal...

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.

Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.’ Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness,...

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

My plate is full; I dig that. And I can’t be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I’m serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to...

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly.

Many of us have been unconsciously programmed to treat walking as a means to an end, especially while in the workplace. Naturally, a lack of mindfulness while walking leaves one hostage to self-perpetuating stress and...

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What’s most important is that you be awake for it.

We don’t treat Jesus like a puppy, soaking in his excitement over our coming home and then leading him back to stay in the laundry room when we go out to begin another day.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.

Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind?

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.