Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Only this actual moment is life.

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness. Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention.

To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because deathis a part of life.

[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

Do not take to heart everything you hear.

Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair but he says he's charging me for finding it.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

I do not expect to see home again.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.