The Mindful Society
Creating Conscious Community through Mindfulness
Living By Choice ...
Not By Chance.
"You are the sky. Everything else is the weather."
― Pema Chodron
“Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
― Jon Kabat Zinn
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is.
― Jon Kabat Zinn
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren
“We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
― Jon Kabat Zinn
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.
― Jon Kabat Zinn
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“the time is always right to do the right thing”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.