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Mindfulness Quotes
"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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"If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn't matter today."
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"Stay present, stay conscious."
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"She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles."
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"Live each moment as if it is the only moment you have."
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"You have the sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, so that you can feel everything in life. They are "feeling" senses, because they enable you to feel what you see, feel what you hear, feel what you taste, feel what you smell and touch. Your entire body is covered with a fine layer of skin, which is a feeling organ, so you can feel everything. How you feel in any one moment is more important than anything else, because how you feel right now is creating your life."
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"Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience."
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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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"The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world."
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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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"Solitude is heaven bliss."
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"You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time."
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"If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity."
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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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"If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy."
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"Before "THOUGHT" there is only YOU and your MIND. Thought, is what assigns meaning to things. Also implying that you are not your THOUGHTS; and with your mind, you have the POWER to assign new meanings to things."
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"Don't waste time with people who waste time. Time is precious, fragile as a butterfly wing, meaningful as an orgasm."
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"Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic."
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"Life should be lived more from the heart and less from the head."
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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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"If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind."
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"The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment."
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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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"Resolutely train yourself to attain peace."
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"When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked."
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"You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not."
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"I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew."
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"Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body."
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"Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons"."
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"Be still! Or life will pass you by."
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"I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry."
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"You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you."
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"All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional."
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"Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze."
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"When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations."
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"Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them."
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"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."
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"When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space."
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"Live each day as if it were your last, love each day as if you will live forever."
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"Don't waste all today worrying about the possible mistakes you may have made yesterday. You don't know what will happen tomorrow or how long we have here, so enjoy what you have today since you have it. May you be thankful for today and live it to the fullest as it truly is a gift."
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"Getting to that place of no thought, is not only a spiritual workout, it is enthused bliss for the soul."
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"Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust."
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"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."
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"This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment."
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"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
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"Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside."
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