17 Quotes by Andy Puddicombe

True happiness doesn’t distinguish between the kind of happiness you get from having fun and the sadness you feel when something goes wrong.

The kind of happiness that I’m talking about is the ability to feel comfortable no matter what emotion arises.

Using sophisticated brain-mapping techniques they discovered that the reduction in gray matter that typically comes with aging had actually been offset by the meditation.

It can sometimes feel as though we’re so busy remembering, planning and analyzing life, that we forget to experience life – as it actually is, rather than how we think it should be.

When it comes to meditation, though, the goal and the journey are the same thing.

It was an extreme, and extremes are rarely a healthy way of living, no matter which end of the scale they may be.

I know it sounds old-fashioned, but when did you last sit at the table to eat a meal? For most people, the sofa has taken the place of the table. In the past we’d have paused before food, whether that was down to etiquette or prayer.

It required a presence, a brutal honesty to put something out there and see what happens. Sometimes it was inspired and the thrill was exhilarating, other times it was painful and the result was humiliating. But somehow it didn’t matter. What mattered was going out there and doing it, not thinking about it, not worrying what others might think, not even being attached to a particular result, just doing it.