We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation’s energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a...

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

The best sex takes place in the mind first

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract,...

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

It’s easy to get lost in our own heads. It’s easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way...

If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don’t need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder,...

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

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.

The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It...

The future that we want – this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you’ve ever had about the future. You’re in it. You’re already in it. What is the purpose...

Mindfulness works with continuous awareness of body, breath; feelings, thoughts, intentions. Our state of mind, our positive or negative attitude towards the world, is closely related to our experiences of happiness or suffering. Mindfulness is...

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation;...

…there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most.

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from...

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

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...

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...

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.

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.