The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Thus mindfulness is at the same time a means and an end, the seed and the fruit. When we practice mindfulness in order to build up concentration, mindfulness is a seed. But mindfulness itself is the life of awareness: the presence of mindfulness means the presence of life, and therefore mindfulness is also the fruit.