Mindfulness

Love your breath.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Awakening is natural,
delusion is not

Practice meditation sincerely and you will realize His infinite grace.  God wants sincerity, truthfulness and love.  Outward verbal effusions do not touch Him. 

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.  In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. 

There is no spiritual peace for the ignorant, because they desire and seek it in the external world.

When the senses are stalled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not-- that, say the wise, is the highest state.  This calm of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga.  One who attains it is freed from delusion. 

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,
one may understand his nature.
One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

When things are going well,
    be mindful of adversity
When prosperous,
    be mindful of poverty
When loved,
    be mindful of thoughtfulness
When respected,
    be mindful of humility

Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

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.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts we make the world.

Do not dwell in the past. 
Do not dream of the future. 
Concentrate the mind on the
present moment. 

We are what we think.

Prayer is not asking.  It is a longing of the soul... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. 

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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