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"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
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"Stolen moments create a feeling of enjoyment in our "intensive time awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ['Stolen moments']"

"When you hold the hand of a child, invest one hundred percent of yourself in the act of holding her hand. When you hug your partner, do the same. Forget everything else. Be totally present, totally alive in the act of hugging. This is the opposite of the way we've been trained to lead our lives and run our businesses. We've been taught to do many things at once. We answer an e-mail while we talk on the phone; while in a meeting for one project, we work on our notes for another project. Every new technology promises to help us do more things at once. Now we can send e-mail while listening to music, talking on the phone, and taking a picture, all with the same device. With your energy that dispersed, where is your power?"

"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."

"Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear."

"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat."

"If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish that it would be nice if she could go home with you. Having such intents towards food and eating leads one to become increasingly possessed with turmoil (worldly suffering). This is why the Lord has said for us to enjoy but not become the enjoyer, to do something which we like but do not become habituated about it."

"Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial."

"The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath."
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"We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating."

"To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy."

"No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable."

"The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one. In fact, just the opposite is true."

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

"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties, it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."

"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."

"Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity."
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