Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.