“When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.”

“When did he ever do something on the spur of the moment? He’d spent all his life focusing on something in the future, trying to attain it… He never thought about anything in the here and now, and enjoyed what he had at this exact moment in time.”

“Even amid our problems we can find words that will help us explore, be mindful, grow, and create a better way of living.”

“If you can let go of fear and anger, you’ve already won.”

“For me, better is energy-giving, flourishing, stretching, thriving, making progress one step at a time.”

“When we’re brave enough to try something else we can often change what we understand to be possible or worth doing, and ultimately who we believe ourselves to be.”

“By acting or performing our way into a new way of thinking, we can sometimes unearth elements of us that we didn’t believe were possible.”

“One reason the concept of becoming better can scare us is that it requires us to step out of a place that we recognize and have possibly grown comfortable with.”

“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”

“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.”

“I once took all my journalsfrom 3 years and burned themin a fire. Alone,watching the past disintegratereminded me of life and time. The presentis all I had. Time slowly burningaway each moment.”

“Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He’s learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It’s a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.”

“Time spent in anger is a double edged sword. Not only is it a phenomenal waste of time, it also damages your health and thus shortens the time you have left.”

“Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn’t really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.”

“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)”