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In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.
There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.
Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.
What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.
What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.
Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.
First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.