You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don’t have to suffer.
What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.
Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Your true home is in the here and the now.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breathe and you see impermanence is life.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.