Occupation: Professor Birth: March 25, 1947
No worry before its time..
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events..
Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive..
To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in..
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves..
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the worl….
Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow..
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them,….
People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will ….
Once you've seen there is another perspective, you can never not see that there's another point of view..
Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility..
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can tak….
When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there..
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see..
Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries..
We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility..
Certainty is a cruel mindset..
My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention..
Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing..
The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them..
Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers ….