Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

The worst part of losing good fish is that you cannot release them. They tailwalk across the back of your mind for days.

I'm not going to change it, because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.