Amanda Palmer Quotes

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

The very actions themselves can be a meditation. For me, walking is certainly a meditation if I walk for awhile. First my mind is busy and I'm thinking about different things and after a while that starts to fall away and I start to become very present in the moment. And that feeling of being present in the moment is being. That's when we know we're connecting with being energy.

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Only the present moment contains life.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.