The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as your capacity to ground your attention in the present moment.

Mindfulness means keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

The only way to experience truth is to look within, to observe oneself.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

The Buddha's teachings are not about abandoning our lives but about bringing the fullness of our attention to our lives.

When mindfulness becomes continuous, the distinction between the observer and the observed begins to break down.

Each breath is a new beginning, a fresh opportunity to awaken.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The perfect moment is this one, not the one you're waiting for.

Self-awareness is the key to freedom. The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand how to be free.

Meditation is not about trying to change ourselves. Meditation is about being aware of what is.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

In the moment of pure noting, there is no self - only the knowing and the known.

The practice of mindfulness transforms the mind from a place of suffering into an instrument of enlightenment.

When we look directly at our thoughts, they dissolve like bubbles in water.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

The quality of every moment depends on the state of our minds.

Life is nothing but a continuous chain of sensations. Pleasant or unpleasant, observe them objectively.

Mindfulness is the quality and power of mind that is aware of what's happening—without judgment and without interference.

Past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty. Future thoughts are unborn and fresh. The present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Mindfulness is the key to the present moment. Without it we cannot see the world clearly, and we cannot make the wisest choices in our lives.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Mindfulness is attention to life, and life itself is sacred.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

Be happy at the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.

The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of the desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring wood: all these I do in Zen.

The key to transformation is not to fight with our experience but to open to it with awareness.

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