You settle for less, you get less.

If a man speaks many holy words but he speaks and does not, this thoughtless man cannot enjoy the life of holiness: he is like a cowherd who counts the cows of his master.Whereas if...

We cannot control the mind by trying to force it to be peaceful or positive. Many have attempted this using a plethora of methods throughout the ages, but it simply does not work. Trying to...

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to youa strange and frightening creature,accept the giftas if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers,oil the hooves...

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

Don’t stop yourself from greatness before you’ve begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and...

There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.

I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness… Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our...

The fact is, inner peace isn’t something that comes when you finally paint the whole house a nice shade of cream and start drinking herbal tea. Inner peace is something that is shaped by the...

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I’m hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and...

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may...

Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The...

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness… focusing the consciousness… aortal dilation… avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness… to be conscious by choice… blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions…...

Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can’t imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.

Stop, breathe, look aroundand embrace the miracle of each day,the miracle of life.

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015

The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the quiet with the painful whispers of all that goes unspoken. Busy-ness is our drug of...

Compassion is born out of lovingkindness.It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they...

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we...

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires...

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

Through practising body scan awareness meditation, we can greatly reduce the detrimental effects of stress and make our working lives pleasant and enjoyable.

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

You don’t have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Positive mind-set is vital for surviving hard-times.

By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a...

To still your mind , first still your tongue.

has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult.” Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it...

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

Respond; don’t react.Listen; don’t talk.Think; don’t assume.

The ‘peace’ the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Singing at the Edge of Need by Susan Laughter Meyers (fragment)Three things I turned my back to: light,the past, the trunk of an old tree.One by one each unfastened itself.To sit is to present when...

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

over-identify” with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negativity.

Conscious breathing anchors us into the nowness of life and gives us a fresh outlook, no different from how a baby observes reality without mental commentary. The baby enjoys watching the world and human activity...