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...

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...

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not ‘How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?’ but ‘How...

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...

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Patience requires a slowing down, a spaciousness, a sense of ease.

Why don’t you just decide to be happy right now rather than spending most of your time desperately hoping to find happiness in something that hasn’t happened yet? You can still create your own reality...

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would...

Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to...

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn’t like.

First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking...

According to Dr. Bruce Lipton, gene activity can change on a daily basis. If the perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body, and if your nervous system reads and interprets...

It’s paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions...

It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

If you’re living in the present…you only have to deal with what’s actually going on in that moment.

Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well....

How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has...

One doesn’t have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.

The word ‘pranayama’, often referred to as alternate breathing, comes from the Sanskrit meaning ‘extension of life force’ or ‘extension of breath’. At times, we are going to have days where we are bombarded with...

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

We must work for the good and commit ourselves to postures of global selflessness, even if we can’t figure out all the details surrounding the foreign dictators, food shortages, and fair trade. We’re called to...

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

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.