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Mindfulness Quotes
"The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence."
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"When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence."
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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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"Live each day as if it were your last, love each day as if you will live forever."
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"If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost."
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"Our time is the life we have at the moment."
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"Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future - present-mindedness is your only safe haven."
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"The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."
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"Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success."
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"Let your mind dance with me. Let it be, just for a moment, stress free."
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"Be control of your mind."
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"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."
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"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. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now."
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"The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it."
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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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"Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic."
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"You can't imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life until you stop."
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"Be still! Or life will pass you by."
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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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"If it's not gonna matter tomorrow, it shouldn't matter today."
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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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"There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right."
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"It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence."
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"If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.If you're in good mood, give thanks to God."
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"Life is an act at a given 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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"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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"Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body."
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"Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening."
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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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"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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"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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"Appreciate every moment because this moment is your precious life."
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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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"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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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."
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"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."
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"Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you."
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"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive."
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"Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon."
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"Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness."
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"There is no need to put anything in front of us and run after it. We already have everything we are looking for, everything we want to become. Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just be. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Most people cannot believe that just walking as though you have nowhere to go is enough. They think that striving and competing are normal and necessary. Try practicing aimlessness for just five minutes,and you will see how happy you are during those five minutes."
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"When you practice mindfulness, you bloom like a flower."
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"Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space."
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"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?"
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"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment."
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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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"To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you."
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