Time only appears linear to a human mind with memory and imagination. But there is only the eternal present, all at once forever. #wednesdaythought

Pay attention to your thoughts and see how long it takes for a thought to pop into your head. If you last more than 30 seconds free from thought, you’re either in the top 1% of mystics, or more likely, you’re unaware that you’re unaware of your thoughts. #thinkingmind

Simply stopping an addiction starves the addiction. Like a plant needs water to grow or it will die, addiction must be acted upon or it will cease. But the mind must fixate on something to replace the addiction. For this, there is no greater object of fixation than a mantra.

TV and social media normalize responding to people negatively because they can’t see or hear our reaction. This turns us into people haters. This is not good. #ThursdayThoughts

When you can joke about something, you take away its negative power over you. #FridayMotivation

Savor the last bite like your first. #mindfulness

You don’t need a positive mindset to attract positive things. Your mindset doesn’t change anything. Rather, your mindset changes how you experience everything. When you reach the right mindset, everything becomes awesome, even though nothing around you has changed. #MindsetShift

If we fail to see that every single person, plant, animal, and molecule is a miracle, then we will stay blinded to the depth and beauty of life. #miracles

It’s ok not to know. In fact it’s better than ok, it’s the truth. If someone claims certainty about something but has no evidence, run. #SundayMotivation

How to Manage Stress Without Changing Your Job or Routine. #workstress linkedin.com/pulse/how-mana…

The purpose of meditation is not to watch our breath. The purpose is to see things as they really are. Observing our breath is merely an aid for that. All you have to do is sit with proper posture and continue your practice so it improves naturally. Only sitting is the goal.

Make sure that you recognize that the most important thing in life is to enjoy it. Because everybody who gets to the end will tell you the same thing: they don't wish they worked harder, they don't wish they worked more hours, they wish they enjoyed the time they had.

Relationships are both the greatest sources of happiness we can find in our lives, and the greatest sources of pain and suffering. Not only can relationships cause us tremendous heartache, but the lack or loss of them can be even more heart-wrenching. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…

Love is not some pie-in-the-sky, naive idea. It is the refusal to dehumanize the opposition, the other side. It is to never forget their humanity, the causes & conditions that led to who they are today And to never give up hope that there can be reconciliation. #Politics

Thoughts have power over us if we believe they are us.