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

When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Impermanence, suffering, and non-self are not philosophical concepts but realities to be directly perceived through mindfulness practice.

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

Awareness is always with us. We don't need to create it or achieve it - we just need to recognize what's already there.

The past is for learning from, not for living in.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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

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

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

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

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

When you note effectively, there is no time for defilements to arise. The mind becomes pure through noting.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

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

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

Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.

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

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.

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.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

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.

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

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.

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

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

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

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

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.

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

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life.

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

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

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

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.