The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.
Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.
With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.
First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.
Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.