Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

If you knew what I would become in the future, would you have treated me the same way today?.

You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn’t you?”“Probably so. We both fart rainbows.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

You can't be pitiful AND powerful.

The child will reveal himself through work.

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.