“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”Tagged: Smile, smiling, Joy, Happiness, smiling invites happiness
“You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you.”Tagged: Encouragement, Possibility, Existence, Manifestation
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”Tagged: Love Advice, Relationship, How To Have A Healthy Relationship, Mottos, Friendship
“While washing dishes, you might be thinking about the tea you’re going to drink afterwards, and so try to get them out of the way as quickly as possible in order to sit and drink tea. But that means that you are incapable of living during the time you are washing the dishes. When you are washing the…”Tagged: present, Moments, Nowness, Living In The Present, Living
“We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also…”Tagged: Earth, World, Nature and Nurture, Environmentalism, change in thinking
“Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”Tagged: Understanding, gaining knowledge, Learning, change in thinking
“Don’t underestimate yourself. You have the ability to wake up. You have the ability to be compassionate.”Tagged: Inspirational
“If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it. This must be done at all times, during your day-to-day life no less than during the hour of meditation.”Tagged: mindfulness, meditation
“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”Tagged: Death, sickness, Concentration, Emptiness, mindfulness
“We observe our body and see all the causes and conditions that have brought it to be—our parents, our country, the air, and even future generations. We go beyond time and space, me and mine, and taste true liberation.”Tagged: Body, Time, Space, Transcendence
“When we eat and breathe properly, we nourish our blood, our body, and our spirit. We should select what we eat carefully and chew our food very well.”Tagged: eating, breathing, Spirit
“We need to strengthen our foundation of joy and happiness before focusing on our suffering.”Tagged: Joy, Happiness, Suffering
“Understanding and wisdom don’t come from thinking and reasoning, but from direct experience.”Tagged: Understanding, Wisdom, Thinking, reasoning, direct experience
“If you are suffering during meditation, your practice is not correct. Practice should be enjoyable and pleasant. It should be full of joy.”Tagged: Suffering, meditation, Joy
“Sit just to enjoy your sitting; you don't need to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings you back to life.”Tagged: sitting, meditation, mindfulness
“When conditions are sufficient, a cloud transforms into rain, snow, or hail. The cloud has never been born and it will never die. This insight of signlessness and interbeing helps us recognize that all lives continue in different forms.”Tagged: cloud, Rain, Snow, hail, mindfulness
“If you have a breathing room, you have a sanctuary, a place where you can return to yourself and restore your sense of peace.”Tagged: breathing, Sanctuary, Peace