Contemplating how to help others relieves stress.
The farther your love extends, the bigger your heart grows.
Generating love enlarges your mind.
If you feel regret at the end of the day, renew your intention to help others.
Regard all sentient beings as your mother.
To change your life, change your attitude.
Uproot negativity by contemplating the suffering of others.
Love is the inexhaustible resource of a settled mind.
Look in the bathroom mirror every morning and repeat to yourself: "It's not about me.”
We can engage in life knowing what we’re doing.
Every time we employ the qualities of generosity, patience, and equanimity, we are making our mind bigger.
How many of us make time to generate love and compassion in our being?
If you use anger and desire to get what you want, and what you want is happiness, it’s never going to work. Therefore contemplate your intention and actions.
Accepting impermanence means that we spend less energy resisting reality.
In the throes of an intense situation, contemplate the nature of samsara instead of blaming yourself or someone else. Samsara is not a place but a mistaken view, a way of freezing reality into a concept.
Through consistent practice, we grow familiar with the feeling of a focused mind. When we stay with it, this clarity connects us with reality.
Practicing exertion helps us turn the tide of laziness.
It’s important to be mindful of the environment, but what’s more important is to be mindful of our attitude towards it—not having a lot of desire or fixation, knowing when we’re moving from having had enough to excess.
The missing spiritual evolutionary link is this: reaching into our heart and mind to determine our motivation, contemplating it, and then acting on it.
By contemplating a negative emotion, we weaken its power, which creates space. The coolness of reason dissipates the heat of the emotion.
An emotion that feels as big as a house can be dismantled brick by brick. Start by asking, Where did this feeling come from? Where does it dwell?
Peaceful abiding gives us the potential to have stronger, more focused access to whatever we are doing.
Meditation in action creates an environment in which our inherent happiness can flourish.
Developing our patience, discipline, generosity, and exertion requires working with others.
Open-mindedness and precision are the ingredients of meditation in action.
Prajna is called “best knowledge” because it takes us toward experiencing reality directly, without concept.
When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.
Dharma penetrates slowly, but if we are willing to stay with it, it will change us from the inside out.
Negative emotions are signs of hope that the world will meet our expectations and fear that it will not.
Resolving to help others takes our meditation into action.
Regret is a symptom of trying to make “me” happy.
True love is not dependent on any one object.
Only through discipline can we truly experience our vast mind, the outer limits of our possibilities.
If we expect somebody else to create peace in the world, we’re going to be waiting for a long time.
The future depends on what we do right now.
Sometimes life is quick, so you need to be quick; sometimes it’s slow, so you need to be slow. With a nimble mind, you respond appropriately.
To determine whether an action is virtuous, ask: What is the result? Do I feel imprisoned or liberated? Do I have regret? Am I content?
Our capacity to self-reflect gives us the power to take control of our mind.
Meditation in action starts with slowing down, looking around, and appreciating our options.
We may think that we don’t meditate, but we are always meditating on something, developing an attitude that builds the foundation for our actions.
Appreciate everybody and everything.
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.
