"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."
- Sylvia Boorstein


Title: Bleep Moment(s)
Flickr User Ria Pereira

"Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma." - Lama Thubten Yeshe, "The Bliss of Inner Fire"


Title: The Doorway
Flickr User Multicoloured Arc

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship;
to ourselves,to others,to life's situations
- Jack Kornield


Title: Road Force Field
Flickr User ryaninc

"where can fish and animals be taken where thy could not be killed?
the renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline"
- Shantideva


Title: The Way Out
Flickr User acampm

"Limits are not the point of minimalism, but they accomplish something important: they force us to figure out what’s important. If we don’t want to figure out what’s important, they force us to figure out why.

There’s a Zen story (I’m paraphrasing here) about a student who asked a teacher, “What’s the most important thing?” And the teacher replied, “The most important thing is asking what’s the most important thing.” - from http://mnmlist.com/


Title: Stained Glass
Flickr User: Castle Photos

"When happiness is equally dear to others and myself,
then what is so special about me that I strive after happiness for myself alone?
When fear and suffering are equally abhorrent to others and myself,
then what is so special about me that I protect myself but not others?"
- Shantideva


Title: legos will shield you
Flickr User Guy H

"we can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much" - Jack Kornfield


Title: pink gerbera with a heart of chocolate!
flickr user Vanessa Pike-Russell

"The acceptance of the truth that joy and sorrow, laughter and tears are not confined to any particular time, place or people, but are universally distributed, should make us more tolerant of and more interested in the lives of others." - William Peck


Title: From Psalm 133 The Hebrew text reads : "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
Flickr User Yon Ilcom

"our beliefs in a rich future are of little importance unless we can coin them into a rich present life." - Thomas Dreier


Title: Blown Off Of My Feet Today
Flickr User Thomas Hole

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. it is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err" - Mohandas K. Ghandi


Title: Ruby Throated Hummingbird
Flickr User Richard Dumoulin