Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.
Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.
When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness.
One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.
Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.
Smile, breathe, go slowly.
The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.
The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I’m being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.
Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.
Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.
Mindfulness is like that – it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?
Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life.