That sentence is: Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine. In other words, no attachments—especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.
Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing—or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To
Our lives are simply bigger than thought.
On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as obedience to the unenforceable.
Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine.
Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to being present. There is no performance. There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. We are not ev...
Mindfulness is now more relevant than ever as an effective and dependable counterbalance to strengthen our health and well-being, and perhaps our very sanity.
If you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too.
For instance, we usually fall, quite unawares, into assuming that what we are thinking—the ideas and opinions that we harbor at any given time—are the truth about what is out there in the world and in...
Dr. Lown’s story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.
Ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy—with ourselves and the world—underneath any apparent separation between the two. The
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. Einstein
Cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don’t eat the menu, mistaking it for the...
When we can be centered in ourselves, even for brief periods of time in the face of the pull of the outer world, not having to look elsewhere for something to fill us up or make us happy, we can be at...
There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your life's problems or promote healing. It will take conscious effort on your part to move...
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING
The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be -...
The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.
Pablo Neruda, Keeping Quiet.Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still.For once on the face of the earthlet’s not speak in any language,let’s stop for one second,and not move our arms so mu...