Mindfulness Quotes - Page 6

• Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Emptiness, Edges

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• Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Flower, Important, Fundamentals

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• If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Buddhist, Reading, Doors

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• . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Revolution, Spirit

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Perception

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• Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

  Nyanaponika Thera

  Twilight, Two, Rooms

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• Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

  Nhat Hanh

  Struggle, Keys, Practice

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• Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Rocks, Views

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• Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Mean, Buddhism

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• The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

  Kedar Joshi

  Insult, Life Is, Insight

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• Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.

  Alice Gardner

  Together, Attention, Matter

  Alice Gardner (2008). “Life Beyond Belief: Everyday Living as Spiritual Practice”, p.54, Awake Publishing

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• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Life, Time, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

  Alan Watts

  Guilt, May, Said

  alan w. watts (1961). “psychotherapy east and west”

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• When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Sun, Difficulty

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• We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Use, Way, Pleasant

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Feb 14, 2013

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• Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  Inward, Stopping, Looks

  "Schools Use Mindfulness to Reform Student Behavior" by Linda Novick O’Keefe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2017.

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• Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Crow, Mind, Glitter

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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• Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

  Nhat Hanh

  Shine On, Shining, Live In The Moment

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• From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Peaceful, Tea

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

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  Ram Dass

  Thinking, Mind, Moments

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.71, Harmony

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• Only the present moment contains life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moments, Peace Is Every Step, Present Moment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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