Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don’t have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others.
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.
Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response.
We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.
Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we’re heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.