You purified your own pain by willingly experiencing it with mindfulness and equanimity. Now, in daily interaction, you open yourself up to other people's pain. But you apply mindfulness and equanimity to it as it resonates within you. By experiencing another person's pain in this liberated way, you are subtly, subliminally helping them to do the same. --Shinzen Young (in A Polio Survivor Serves the Dying)

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. --Jon Kabat-Zinn (in 5 Reasons to Be Mindful)

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. --Jon Kabat-Zinn (in Slow Down, Slow Food, Slow Science)

I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality. People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle. --Thich Nhat Hanh (in Untitled)

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their circumstances and conditioning. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act. --Gil Fronsdal (in 21-Day No Complaints Challenge)

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act. --Gil Fronsdale (in How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors)

To attain well-being, we need to take care not only of our bodies but also of our minds. Mindfulness practice is central to seeing the interdependence of mind and body. --Lilian Cheung, Thich Nhat Hanh (in Better Eating through Mindfulness)

Mindfulness can be summed up in two words: pay attention. Once you notice what you're doing, you have the power to change it. --Michelle Burford (in Mindfulness in Politics)

Both race and our reactivity to it are worthy of being brought with skillful engagement into mindfulness practice. --Rhonda Magee (in How to Fight Racism Through Inner Work)