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Mindfulness Quotes
"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
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"Quiet the mind's constant chatter of uncontrolled thoughts."
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"Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you."
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"Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment."
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"Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away."
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"People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments."
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"Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration."
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"Be present to this moment and open endless doors of awareness. Now is where the joy is, be here now."
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"In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat."
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"Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering."
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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."
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"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."
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"Do not ever get agitated by provoking thoughts and actions. Always keep your calm. This will shame the alien."
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"To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization."
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"Think less and feel more and see what happens."
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"You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you."
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"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."
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"Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us."
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"During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good."
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"We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing."
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"The 'deep pause' needed to cultivate wonder is far too often back-filled with an incessant busyness, as busyness errantly presumes a 'deep pause' to be deeply wasteful."
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"Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again."
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"When you feel overwhelmed, you're trying too hard. That kind of energy does not help the other person and it does not help you. You should not be too eager to help right away. There are two things: to be and to do. Don't think too much about to do-to be is first. To be peace. To be joy. To be happiness. And then to do joy, to do happiness-on the basis of being. So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being generous. Being compassionate. This is the basic practice. It's like if the other person is sitting at the foot of a tree. The tree does not do anything, but the tree is fresh and alive. When you are like that tree, sending out waves of freshness, you help to calm down the suffering in the other person."
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"Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won't be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity."
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"Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity."
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"When you look at a flower with an appreciative heart and get lost in the magical beauty, you really get a vacation from the everyday stressful life."
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"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
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"Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns."
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"Time, place, and space for all things, but spending [the] majority of one's time playing in outer places, and far less time exploring inner space, is perhaps the worst form of neglect. Don't play yourself; the real you awaits."
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"Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water."
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"Don't neglect or ignore every second that passes."
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"My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time."
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"Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation."
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"There is madness in the mind."
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"Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better."
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"When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing."
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"Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."
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"Thinking is the most overrated human activity."
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"The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself."
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"Think about what you are thinking about. Be aware of your own thoughts!"
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating."
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"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware- not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now."
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"Live in the now and the how will take care of itself."
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