Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.