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.
Our own life has to be our message.
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.
With mindfulness – the practice of peace – we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
The war is in our souls.