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Mindfulness Quotes
"Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality."
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"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
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"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."
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"When we quit focusing on the wrong in the past or the uncertainty of the future, we get to monitor and determine our emotional states, as we enjoy and surrender to our present moment with confidence that we shall be led to our next destination."
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"I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined."
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"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
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"An empty mind is not a devil's workshop; it is God's temple."
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"We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply 'stop'."
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"The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it."
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"You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy."
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"The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are."
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"If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place."
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"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
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"Wherever you are, be there! Be there to absorb it. Take a picture if you can. Take pictures in your mind; let your soul and heart take pictures. Get it, capture it, absorb it. And don't be casual in getting it. Casualness leads to casualties."
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"People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind."
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"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
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"While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself."
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"Your presence is enough to go through life. More and more you observe life, more and more you can let lose yourself with the free flow of life."
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"To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now."
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"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."
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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."
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"The past has no power over the present moment."
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"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."
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"The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."
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"Mindful observation is based on the principle of "non-duality: our feeling is not separate from us or caused merely by something outside us; our feeling is us, and for the moment we are that feeling. We are neither drowned in nor terrorized by the feeling, nor do we reject it. Our attitude of not clinging to or rejecting our feelings is the attitude of letting go."
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"After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds..."
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"Wherever you are, be all there."
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"Whatever you focus on overwhelms you. Whether that be past or present, friend or foe, love or hate, problem or GOD. Let GOD be your choice of overwhelm."
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"Bliss-a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious-lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom."
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"We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation."
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"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."
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"Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs."
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"I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it."
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"When you are always present in the now, you will never be shocked or surprised by anything: because you will see or sense the signs of the change or changes in something or someone as it/they happen right in-front of your very eyes."
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"When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening."
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"Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space."
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"In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect."
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"Go outside. Don't tell anyone and don't bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don't try to get anything out of it, because you won't. Don't try to make use of it, because you can't. And that's the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy. There's a whole world out there, right outside your window. You'd be a fool to miss it."
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"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
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"People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now."
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"Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value."
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"Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking."
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"Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life."
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"Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life."
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"When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate."
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"The present would only have room in one's life if one lets go of the ordeals in one's mind."
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"Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn."
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"We have to establish ourselves in the here and now in order to truly eat. All through the meal, we should really be here with the people at the table. As we chew our food, we should really be here with what we are eating. We can get deeply in touch with the food, which is a gift from the earth and sky."
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