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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.
Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.
You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world.
In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence
"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.
Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.
Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.
Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.
There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.