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immersed in a seemingly never-ending stream of thoughts, coming willy-nilly one after another in rapid succession.

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Be a light unto yourself.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath. KABIR

You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Either wherever you go there you are or wherever you go there you aren't.

Even the tiniest manifestation of mindfulness in any moment might give rise to an intuition or insight that could be hugely transforming.

Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.

Knowing what you are doing while you are doing it is the essence of mindfulness practice.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are

As long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

Any change that comes about in your life will be primarily because of your own efforts

Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.

Breathe and let be.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy - with ourselves and the world - underneath any apparent separation between the two. The

We all come into and go out of this world as passing gatherings of structured energy.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.

The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

Paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being right.

In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

Just because you decide to still your body and observe your breath from moment to moment doesn't mean that your thinking mind is going to cooperate.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

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.

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Meditation is like farming ... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Cannot be imposed, legislated, or decreed. They can only be cultivated, and

Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

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 present is the only time that we have to know anything.

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

There is more right with you than wrong with you" - those

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

No one can listen to your body for you ... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

You make problem, you have problem

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing - or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.