If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don’t really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.