David Richo Quotes About Mindfulness

Quotes about: Mindfulness

• The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.

  David Richo

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Compassion

• Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

  David Richo

  Spiritual, Practice, Meditation

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

• In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.

  David Richo

  Appreciation, Tree, Mindfulness

• Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Attachment, Expectations

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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