Quotes from Donald Altman

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

To forgive does not mean we condone the misdeeds of another. We can dedicate ourselves to making sure they never happen again. But without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past…. Forgiveness is a way to move on.

greet the day gently and with utmost care.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.

Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, "It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit."22

Shifting our awareness to what is pleasant and beautiful and good is deeply affirming. It taps into the fundamental goodness of life

As a mindfulness student once said to his teacher, "Every time I start to think about how I'm finally in the here and now, I realize the moment has already passed." The

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you're grateful.

There are enough critical voices in this world; you don't have to be one of them.

qué implica tal cambio de conciencia? Lo que en realidad hace es demostrar la diferencia entre una orientación hacia el resultado y una orientación hacia el proceso.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected

One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.