Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving… — Sylvia Boorstein Acceptance Copy Share Image
“May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.” — Sylvia Boorstein Friendship Copy Share Image
“ May I feel contented and safe. May I feel protected and pleased. May my physical body support me with strength. May… — Sylvia Boorstein Physical body Copy Share Image
“One of the ways we build intimate relationships with other people is by sharing our fears with them, telling them the things… — Sylvia Boorstein Fear Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.” — Sylvia Boorstein Buddha Copy Share Image
“The Buddha said that there are three times that a person should consider the consequences of any action: before, during, and after.… — Sylvia Boorstein Buddha Copy Share Image
“Knowing ... that the struggle to create a different current reality is to no avail helps keep the attention present even when… — Sylvia Boorstein Knowledge Copy Share Image
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein Affliction Copy Share Image
“Being trapped by fear is a form of delusion. Either I can do something or I can't. If I truly can't ...… — Sylvia Boorstein Fear Copy Share Image
“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes… — Sylvia Boorstein Communication Copy Share Image
The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and… — Sylvia Boorstein Appreciation Copy Share Image
Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is. — Sylvia Boorstein Demand Copy Share Image
“I am more able to recognize when my mind has gotten itself into trouble and increasingly eager to mobilize the energy to… — Sylvia Boorstein Focus Copy Share Image
Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to… — Sylvia Boorstein Down and Copy Share Image
The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to… — Sylvia Boorstein Bigs Copy Share Image
“Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in… — Sylvia Boorstein Focus Copy Share Image
