The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

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

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

The past is just a memory. The future is just a dream. Be here now.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Meditation is not an escape from life but a way to fully engage with life.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The more precisely you note, the more clearly you understand. The more clearly you understand, the stronger your insight becomes.

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

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

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

Through continuous mindfulness practice, the true nature of physical and mental phenomena becomes clear.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each moment of mindfulness is a moment of purification.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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