Mindfulness for Stress Reduction | MBSR in San Francisco with Augusta Hopkins

The Present Moment, Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The present moment, the only moment we have to feel or to think, is a hidden dimension for most of us. We are so absorbed with planning for the future or blaming people for what is over and done with that we lose the lives we are living. We die a thousand deaths wasting our […]

Cloud Mountain

Cloud Mountain Retreat Center is a non-sectarian Buddhist center hosting residential retreats year round. Our mission is to provide opportunities for all individuals to hear and practice Buddhist teachings with qualified and realized teachers in an environment that combines exquisite simplicity, comfort and a supportive container for spiritual transformation. It is our intention to provide […]

Blue Cliff Monastery

Blue Cliff is open for family and friends to come and enjoy the practice of mindful living. Established by Thich Nhat Hanh and led by the Nuns and Monks of Plum Village. We invite you to stay with us in New York’s Hudson Valley, south of the Catskills, and practice living in the present moment! […]

Please Call Me by My True Names, Thich Nhat Hanh

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow – even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to […]

Omega Institute

Omega is a place to explore the extraordinary potential that exists in all of us as individuals and together as a human family. Omega was founded on the holistic worldview that the well-being of each of us is deeply connected to the well-being of all living things. Since 1977, we have offered diverse and innovative […]

Love After Love, by Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome,   and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to […]

Magnolia Grove

Magnolia Grove, located in Batesville, Mississippi, is both a Monastery and Mindfulness Practice Meditation Center based in the tradition of Plum Village, founded by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Magnolia Grove, is a place to practice meditation and mindfulness. It is where every breath we take reminds us of the wonders of life. A […]

The Well of Grief, David Whyte

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning down to its black water to the place that we can not breathe will never know the source from which we drink the secret water cold and clear nor find in the darkness the small gold coins thrown by those […]

The Journey, Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to […]

Self Care is Underrated

One meditation student said, “My teacher is the best. She can go days without eating.” The second said, “My teacher has so much self-control, she can go days without sleep.” The third said, “My teacher is so wise that she eats when she’s hungry and sleeps when she’s tired.” Please, take good care of yourself. […]