Mindful Awareness

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

In today’s rush, we all think too much — seek too much — want too much — and forget about the joy of just being.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.

The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.

Peace begins with a smile.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.