“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” ― Jack Kornfield

This week you can practice mantra meditation to see if this method would work for you.

“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”

Nhat Hanh

"Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering."

Dalai Lama

“Why Not?” - Sanitation Engineer

“The more opinions you have, the less you will see”

Wim Wenders

“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up. “

-Eckhart Tolle

“It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur. “

Jon Kabot-Zinn

“Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.”

Mitch Albom

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself”.

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Do Hard Things”

Awakening

“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.”

Gail Sheehy

“Peace is a muscle that needs to be exercised.” - Jay Shetty

“Gratitude is a verb”

Jay Shetty

Generosity was added to the foundations of mindfulness because it is so critical to our relationships and existence. It attunes us to our inner self and the recognition of how much we already have within.

When I speak about finding inner peace, I remind everyone that they have the power within themselves. Glinda the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz states. “We have more power to succeed than we think or realize. You had the power all along, my dear.” This perspective is that inner peace is something we already possess but need to cultivate. Yet why is it so difficult for many of us to find this inner peace?

In the end, just three things matter: How well we lived. How well we loved. How well we have learned to let go. Jack Kornfield

“In meditation, we let things simply be, as they are. Time spent in the practice non-doing, or non-striving helps us realize that whatever is already here is good enough, even if it is unpleasant, it is enough” Jon Kabat-Zinn