Think of your lunch break as a mini vacation-an opportunity to connect with your nonworking self.

When you are concentrating on a specific task using your powers of observation, you are not thinking or worrying about anything else. You are practicing living in the moment.

Take a day, or a few days, to just be silent. Turn off the TV, the radio, the telephone, even the thoughts in your head. Do not read, write, or surf the Internet. Take refuge in the calm and peace of a quiet mind. Keep still.

Help others purely for the sake of helping, with no thought of personal gain and without wishing to be recognized for it.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, where you are, right now. Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.

When you cannot stop thinking about something, first think about the best-case sceanario. Then think of the worst-case scenario. Then let it go and wait for whatever comes.

Pursue every activity with this single intention: Be gentle, kind, thoughtful, caring, compassionate, loving, fair, reasonable, and generous to everyone, including yourself.

If you are able to maintain continuous mindfulness, nothing will upset you. You will not become angry or agitated. You can be patient no matter what anyone says or does. You can stay peaceful and happy.

Think long term. Remember that satisfying short-term desires will never make you deeply happy or satisfied with life.