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

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

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.

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.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

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.

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

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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

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

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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

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 color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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.

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

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

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