Noah Levine

"We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves."

"Its easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in ones life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment."

"The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content."

"Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion."

"The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires."

"With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion."

"Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience."

"We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don’t have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure."

"Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant."

"Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever."

"Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind."

"Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world."