Appreciate the richness of your life and develop it into a cadence and harmony that enriches others.
Wanting to possess something decreases our ability to see and appreciate what is there.
Can we appreciate something without trying to hold on to it?
Learning to appreciate the peculiarities of life, we become more imaginative, able to find creative ways of uplifting ourselves.
Our hearts are cheerful when we appreciate our own wisdom.
Appreciation comes from a mind that is much more able to appreciate, because it is content.
At any moment of the day, we can rest our mind in an environment of appreciation and care.
We can slow down and feel fortunate to be here.
Appreciate what you have, and utilize your insight to go beyond the boundaries of "me."
Appreciating impermanence makes us less desperate people. We no longer try to squeeze out the last drop of pleasure; we no longer feel insulted by pain.
Contemplating impermanence, we learn to appreciate the ebb and flow of life.
Appreciating your life makes problems seem smaller.
When we appreciate what we have, being alive seems fresh and good.
Appreciation invites us to tune in to simple and ordinary pleasures.
When we appreciate the preciousness of our life, we are less enmeshed in self-involvement.
In order to overcome laziness, we need to be curious about life, combining appreciation with imagination.
Meditation shows us how to keep the mind in one place long enough to appreciate our surroundings.
True love is the natural energy of our settled mind, an inexhaustible resource.
Appreciation cuts through the clutter of negativity, revealing love and compassion, which are natural and permanent.
The more we appreciate others, the softer and fertile our hearts become.
Wherever you are, rest your mind in a sense of appreciation.
Can we appreciate the fruits of meditation practice without expectation or attachment?
Every time you appreciate someone else, you are taking a vacation from the “me” plan.
Appreciation counteracts aggression.
Change a small percentage of your attitude for a small percentage of the day. When you get up in the morning, say, “With ten percent of my mind, I’m going to try appreciation."
Appreciating your life relieves stress, brings joy, and has fantastic karmic repercussions.
As a way to appreciate everyone, regard all sentient beings as your mother.
Appreciation creates a space that accommodates the daily vicissitudes and gives us room to think of others.
Appreciating where we are and what we have, it is easy to relax on the spot.
Speed is the enemy of mindfulness. The antidote is being appreciative and observant of life\'s every detail.
Each time you return to the breath, you’re taking one step away from addiction to discursiveness and fear and one step forward on the path of enlightenment.
A successful meditation practice is a consistent practice. Ten to twenty minutes of sitting practice a couple of times daily over a lifetime is good.
With mindfulness, we see that samsara is a mistaken view that freezes reality into a concept.
If we’re meditating properly, our practice and understanding will always take us a little further than we might think we want to go.
Samsara isn’t a place, it’s an attitude: “I’m real and everything’s for me.” With mindfulness we become aware of this attitude and begin to change it.
The Buddha taught that to wake up from the dream of bewilderment and suffering, we first need to sit still and take a deep breath.
Mindfulness engenders a clarity that connects us with reality.
By growing familiar with the feeling of a focused mind, we develop the strength to stay with it.
Mindfulness shows us that at the basis of our being is something deeper and more open than fantasies, emotions, and discursiveness.
With a mind that is able to focus in any endeavor, we feel centered and confident.
The fruition of peaceful abiding meditation is enduring mindfulness.
Working steadily in meditation with the mind’s wild chatter makes maintaining mindfulness throughout the day much easier.
Mindfulness and awareness present us with the revolutionary opportunity to observe the movement of the mind without being swept into it.
Cultivating mindfulness gives us the potential to have stronger, more focused access to whatever we are doing.
True mindfulness is no separation between here and there.
In meditation, mindfulness is what we use to hold our minds to the breath, and awareness is the intelligence that tells us what we’re doing.
Use the mindfulness and awareness you develop on the cushion to stay in the saddle of your life.
Experiencing the stability and joy of our mind eventually becomes much more appealing than listening to our mental chatter.
Coming back to the breath is one of the most effective ways to work with fantasies and strong emotions.
Peaceful abiding is a practice of noticing how the mind creates story, speed, and solidity—and learning how to tune it to the present moment.
Learning to be present for the moment is the beginning of the spiritual path.
Changing your attitude is the way to effect change in your life.
Without mindfulness, we are seduced or abducted by every whim that walks through the door.
If we start each day with meditation, we are more prepared to face whatever arises.
Mindfulness gives us the confidence to be able to acknowledge our thoughts without being hooked by them.
With mindfulness, we learn to relax our discursiveness. Then we find that underneath it all, we already happy.
Mindfulness creates the psychological space in which to choose our responses off the cushion.
Mindfulness engenders the patience and honesty to be self-aware.
In meditation we are training our mind not to fixate.
Sitting meditation is a vacation from acting on the speed and vibration of the mind.
