#mindfulness

"Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world."

"There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group."

"Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter."

"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."

"Treat everyone you meet as if they were you."

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives."

"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."

"Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another."

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

"Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present."

"Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are."

"Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)"

"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."

"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."

"My mind’s flight rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel"

"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now."

"We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one."

"When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life."

"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."