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.
You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.