You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feelemotions. You are not your body; you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through...

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

If I don’t understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don’t believe everything you think.

Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.

You actions are your only true belongings.

When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers irritation or angers you, knowing how to respond in a mindful way can...

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us; it is an entity in itself.

I would like to ofer some exercises that can help us use the Five Precepts to cultivate and strengthen mindfulness. It is best to choose one of these exercises and work with it meticulously for...

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn’t be trying to go anywhere else.If you could know the perfection of time and space,You...

Keep dreaming.You can go as far as you dream.

Powiedz mi, co mam zrobić, żeby osiągnąć taką mądrość?” Mędrzec patrzy na niego i powiada: “Siadaj.” Uczeń siada obok niego i powtarza swoje. “No, powiedz mi, rebe, to co ja mam robić?” Rabin milczy i...

My caregiver mantra is to remember ‘The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward...

Let the breath lead the way.

Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that’s endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn’t inherent in the place but in your state of...

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

There is never a reason good enough to be out of alignment with peace.

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.

It is fine to be committed to work, but our minds need time to recover and our bodies need to move.

Whether someone is a CEO of a major corporation or is serving meals in a diner, failure to adopt a mindful approach will mean that mental and emotional exhaustion could become a habitual condition. Whether...

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

We don’t practice hospitality to point other people to ourselves, our church, or even our beliefs. We practice hospitality to point people toward the ultimate welcome that God gives every person through Christ.

…it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Balance is the key to a long and happy life.

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of...

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird...

I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming to attention, a Universe of which one is the center, a...

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

There is no key to open the heart of another – except curiosity.

Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.” “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you...

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don’t hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us…

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

The beauty of mindful-life-breath meditation is that you are not restricted to having to sit in the lotus position to be present. Whether you are on a busy train, driving a car or walking down...

If you feel depressed for an hour, you’ve produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

☺☺ When a man gets you 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left… Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺

Ain’t you thinkin’ what’s it gonna be like when we get there? Ain’t you scared it won’t be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain’t. You can’t do that. I can’t do...

Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not...

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart…

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

another day, another miracle.” (213)