Children Of The Earth

“We are children of the earth. We rely on the earth, and the earth relies on us. Whether the earth is beautiful, fresh, and green, or arid and parched, depends on our way of walking. Please touch the earth in mindfulness, with joy and concentration. The earth will heal you, and you will heal the earth.”

Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 3/22/24

Suddenly Alive Again

“Many people are lost in worries about the future and regrets about the past. They are caught up in their projects and their fantasies, and their minds are not connected to their bodies. If the body is not united with the mind, we are not really alive. Mindful walking and mindful breathing help bring the mind back to the body, so we can be truly present in the here and now and become truly alive. Practicing mindfulness can be a kind of resurrection; suddenly, you become alive again.”

Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 1/15/24

The Art Of Stopping

“We practice to have enough strength to confront problems effectively. To do this, we must be calm, fresh, and solid. That is why we need to practice the art of stopping. When we learn to stop, we become calmer, and our mind becomes clearer, like clear water after the particles of mud have settled.”

Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 1/4/24

Sit Like A Mountain

“Sitting quietly, just breathing in and out, we develop strength, concentration, and clarity. So sit like a mountain. No wind can blow the mountain down.”

Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 10/16/23

The Foundation of Love

“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 9/5/23

For the Person You Love

“Have you offered your presence to the person you love? Are you so busy that you cannot be there for that person? If you are a father or a mother or a partner, generate your own presence, because that is the most precious gift you can offer.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 8/21/23

Love Your Own Heart

“What is love? Love is treating your beating heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion. If you cannot treat your own heart this way, how can you treat your partner with understanding and love?”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 6/3/23

The Lamp of Mindfulness

“We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We have to light up that lamp of mindfulness so the light will shine out and the darkness will dissipate and cease. Our practice is to light up the lamp.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 4/19/23

I Have Arrived

“We believe that happiness is possible only in the future. That is why the practice “I have arrived” is very important. The realization that we have already arrived, that we don’t have to travel any further, that we are already here, can give us peace and joy. The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient. We only need to allow ourselves to be in the present moment, and we will be able to touch them.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 3/27/23

“I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

-Rainer Maria Rilke
shared 2/13/23

“Find what you’re afraid of most and go live there.”

-Chuck Palahniuk
shared 1/16/23

“The Anchor

There are many ways to come back to the here and the now, and to touch life deeply. But they all involve mindful breathing. If we’re anchored in our mindful breathing, we can practice anytime. Otherwise we risk missing our lives, our lives that are lived in the here and now.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 8/4/22

“If through mindfulness of the breath you generate harmony, depth, and calm, these will penetrate into your body and mind. In fact, whatever happens in the mind affects the body, and vice versa. If you generate peacefulness in your breathing, that peacefulness permeates your body and your state of mind.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 7/31/22

“Without darkness nothing comes to light, as without light nothing flowers.”

-May Sarton
shared 10/31/21

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
-Maya Angelou
shared 10/8

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
-Edward Stanley
shared 10/8

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

-Lao Tzu
shared 9/26

“Water the Right Seeds.

The seeds of negativity are always there, but very positive seeds also exist, such as the seeds of compassion, tolerance, and love. These seeds are all there in the soil, but without rain they cannot manifest. Our practice is to recognize and water the positive seeds. If you recognize the seed of compassion in yourself, you should make sure that it is watered several times every day.”

-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 9/15

“There is no use in trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
”I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
-Lewis Carroll
shared 9/13

“They asked her,

“What is real happiness?”

She answered,

“Happiness is not fulfilling every pleasure or getting every outcome you desire. Happiness is being able to enjoy life with a peaceful mind that is not constantly craving for more. It is the inner peace that comes with embracing change.”
-Yung Pueblo
shared 8/7

“Through the practice of deep looking, we can identify the positive seeds that we want to water every day, and train ourselves not to water the negative ones. This is called “selective watering”. The Buddha recommended methods for doing this, and even a few days of this practice can bring about a transformation.”
-Thich Nhat Hhan
shared 7/2

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
-Celia Thaxter
shared 6/12

”Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
shared 6/12

”When all else fails, take a vacation.”
-Betty Williams
shared 6/12

“Breath is the bridge that connects life to consciousness, the bridge that unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”
-Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 6/8

“There are many ways to come back to the here and the now, and touch life deeply. But they all involve mindful breathing. If we’re anchored in our mindful breathing, we can practice anytime. Otherwise we risk missing our lives, our lives that are lived in the here and now.”
-Thich Nhat Hnah
shared 5/29

“Toto-I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
-Dorothy ‘The Wizard of Oz’
shared 5/23

”Get busy living or get busy dying.”
-Red ‘The Shawshank Redemption
shared 5/23

“Live Vigorously—
Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life—with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
shared 5/18

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
-Mary Oliver
shared 5/11

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this-some strengthening throb of amazement-some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
-Mary Oliver
shared 5/10

“An Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha.”
-Unknown
shared 5/9

“I tell you this, to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
-Mary Oliver
shared 5/2

“Keep some room in your heart for the Unimaginable.”
-Mary Oliver
shared 5/1

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”
-Rachel Carson
shared 4/24

“When you’ve transmuted darkness into radiance, you develop an appetite for light and only light. You will choose to eat the light, point out the light, speak with light, make love with light, dance for light, work for light, laugh with light, rest in the light, and inquire from the light. You will throw light around everywhere like the lightworker that you know you are. It will be stunning.”
-Unknown
shared 4/19

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
-Paramahansa Yogananda
shared 4/17

“There is no use in trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
”I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
-Lewis Carroll
shared 4/11

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu
shared 4/7

“When you hear beyond the word, an inner light goes on.”
-Sydney Banks
shared 4/7

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
-Franz Kafka
shared 3/30

“If music be the food of love, play on.”
-William Shakespeare
shared 3/21

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
-Lao Tzu
shared 3/21

“I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.”
-Jack White
shared 3/21

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
-Thich Nat Hanh
shared 3/20

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg
shared 3/8

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
shared 3/8