The Accidental Buddhist Quotes

“We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

“A lesson is learned. It is easier, more efficient, to chop onions when you are only chopping onions, not conversing, checking up on the rest of the kitchen, answering the phone, flirting with the young lady scouring the coffeepot, or whatever.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

“But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

“Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment...

"Self-propulsion," such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style

“When we are chopping onions, we should be chopping onions only, right there, right then, at the chopping board, as if the onions, the knife, and our hands were all that existed.”
― Dinty W. Moore, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style