With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

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.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.