Mindfullness

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. Thich Nhat Hanh

“When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state. But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame. These negative emotions and energies rule our lives and cause our su

Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.

TIBETAN SAYING

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.

THICH NHAT HANH

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi

Meditation is the practice of breaking one’s identification with thought and allowing experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to simply be as it is.

So meditation is not something you’re doing, really. It’s something you’re ceasing to do. You are ceasing to be distracted by thought.

Therefore real meditation is not a form of inwardness. It’s a fo

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dōgen Zenji

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang-Tzu