“Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.”

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

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

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

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

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?

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

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

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that’s been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

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.

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

You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.

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

Be aware of the judgments that you and others conjure. The words reflect the inner world; the doctrines that you sponsor.

I’ve been made painfully aware of the difference in the day-to-day reality I’ve grown up and continue to live in.

But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.

When you happy, you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

To be aware & not to act: The worst misfortune.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

The most difficult situation in life is being aware that you’re lost.