Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

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

Mindfulness is not just bare attention but wise attention that leads to understanding and insight.

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

The signs of practice are not in extraordinary experiences but in extraordinary awareness of ordinary experiences.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

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

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Every moment is a fresh beginning. Every breath is a new chance.

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

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

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

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

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.

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

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

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.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

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

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

The difference between being caught in thoughts and being mindful of thoughts is like the difference between being in a movie and watching a movie.

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.

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

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.

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

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

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

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer, see it, know it, be empty.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

When you note pain, you should not dwell on the thought, "I feel pain." Simply recognize the presence of pain.

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

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

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

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Every sensation shares the same characteristic - arising, passing. Arising, passing. Learn to observe objectively.

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.

Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it were different.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.

The four foundations of mindfulness are not separate practices but different aspects of the same practice of clear awareness.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

Don't expect or desire anything. Just keep noting whatever arises in the present moment.

Observe the reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense.

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

The technique of self-observation is the technique of observing the reality about oneself at the experiential level.

The whole path of mindfulness is about letting go. We let go of our attachment to our views, our attachment to our opinions, our attachment to our ideas.

The practice of mindfulness is simply to bring awareness to what we are doing, what we are saying, and what we are thinking.

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

Mindfulness is the key to transformation. It enables us to see our experience as it really is, free from distortion and bias.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here. Live in the present moment with awareness.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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