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“Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly alive, present and at one with those around you and with what you are doing.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism

“Now the patient isn’t an individual person […] The patient is the planet. The patient are all these individual nations which are at war with each other and creating havoc in terms of destruction on unimaginable levels, human destruction and also eco-destruction on fantastic levels. […] I think the challenge is a very big one but I don’t know anything other than mindfulness that is actually remotely up to this challenge and that gives me a lot of hope in the face of so much despair and suffering on planet Earth at the moment.”

~ Jon Kabat Zinn, the creator of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in an Instagram post by the Mind and Life Institute in June 2026.