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,...
Carl Jung put it this way: The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one’s whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. With
Symptoms of illness and distress, plus your feelings about them, can be viewed as messengers coming to tell you something important about your body or about your mind. In the old days, if a king didn'...
It is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.
Meditation is more rightly thought of as a Way than as a technique. It is a Way of being, a Way of living, a Way of listening, a Way of walking along the path of life and being in harmony with things...
Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.
We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave p...
The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn.
One small shift in the way we each conduct ourselves, and the crystal lattice structure of the world is already different. In this way, we are the world, and when we take responsibility for our small...
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporane...
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Comes up with. This is the flavor of true intentionality and inner discipline. You do it simply
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it le...
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand.
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine.
Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.
Every time you get a strong impulse to talk about meditation and how wonderful it is, or how hard it is, or what it’s doing for you these days, or what it’s not, or you want to convince someone else h...
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes use of thinking, honoring its value and its power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our think...