“Life is so very messy! I have spent most of my life trying to control this messiness with all my imperfections. Recently I discovered that no matter how hard I try, it would bring me more anguish in my attempts to control it. Everything is temporary and some things are just out of our control!“

Kalyn Jolivette

Without direct experience, the impact of habitual mindfulness practice seems too simple to be beneficial.

“I want to be drenched in cold water,
to be fully saturated,
to explode into a nap,
to share a piece of truth so true
that it shakes the schemas we've schemed —
most of all the divisions.”

Jane Klinger

When remembering to notice that we're alive becomes a habit, we begin to erode the internal friction that obscures our view of the richness we're swimming in every day.

First, you must let your heart
be broken open
in a way you have never
felt before,
cannot imagine.

Dorothy Walters

When you catch yourself absorbed by some immediate aspect of your environment, try to yield to the observation fully for a few seconds.

“Happiness is not a large enough word for the deeper satisfactions that human beings are searching for and will search for and have searched for through recorded time.”

David Whyte

"We can’t always have complete experiences, but sometimes we can and with practice, we can have them more and more."

Shinzen Young