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Mindfulness Quotes
"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
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"Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality."
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"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."
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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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"An empty mind is not a devil's workshop; it is God's temple."
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"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space."
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"Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value."
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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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"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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"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
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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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"If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn't matter today."
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"The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment."
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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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"If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place."
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"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
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"The past has no power over the present moment."
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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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"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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"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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"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."
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"Live each moment as if it is the only moment you have."
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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."
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"Here's the thing about meditation, as I try once again to make it a habit... Even when I close my eyes to meditate for five minutes, body fidgeting, mind racing and worrying and busying itself with everything but the present moment, I still feel quieter, more relaxed when I open my eyes. Maybe it's just the simple act of giving myself five dedicated minutes of attention (no matter how they play out) to the calm, knowing soul that smiles from within at all of my mental nonsense. We are beings of peace after all. And of love. So much goodness, so much understanding and compassion lives inside each of us, like wide-eyed children, always ready to come out and play."
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"The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it."
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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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"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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"Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn."
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"Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body."
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"Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands."
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"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."
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"Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it."
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"Solitude is heaven bliss."
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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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"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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"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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"When we don't have money, we're sure having it will solve all our problems. When we don't have a relationship, we're sure being in one will make us whole. When we don't have our health, we're sure being healthy will make us happy. We're so sure about what we don't have. What would happen if we were so sure about what we did have? Try it, it's called gratitude."
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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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"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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"If we think we have twenty-four hours to achieve a certain purpose, today will become a means to attain an end. The moment of chopping wood and carrying water is the moment of happiness. We do not need to wait for these chores to be done to be happy. To have happiness in this moment is the spirit of aimlessness. Otherwise, we will run in circles for the rest of our life. We have everything we need to make the present moment the happiest in our life, even if we have a cold or a headache. We don't have to wait until we get over our cold to be happy. Having a cold is a part of life."
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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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"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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"Your life is happening in the NOW, yet the present moment is often squandered by your thinking about what has happened in the past or may happen in the future."
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