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Mindfulness Quotes
"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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"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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"Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life."
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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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"If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place."
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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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"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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"You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
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"Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you."
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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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"Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it."
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"The past has no power over the present moment."
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"Everyone wants to be happy and live mindfully. Books teach us how to resuscitate the body and soul and how to recognize what in our own personal lives is worthy of noticing. Writers' considered opinions and subtle observations regarding the joys, paradoxes, pains, tragedies, and truths of living provide us with a jumpstart in analyzing how best to integrate our personal experiences and disjointed thoughts into a cogent belief system. An artistic person understands their passions demand a struggle. Reading allows me unobtrusively to discover how other people freed themselves from suffering a destructive life of attachment, delusion, and disablement."
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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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"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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"You should keep calm and listen to voice inside you."
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"Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender"
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"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."
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"Our time is the life we have at the moment."
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"If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind."
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"Not every ROAD we come across in our daily life is one we have to take. Sometimes just standing still and being, can BE the best move we ever make."
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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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"Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic."
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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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"You can't imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life until you stop."
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"All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional."
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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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"Stay present, stay conscious."
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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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"Wherever you are, be all there."
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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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"However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop."
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"Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence."
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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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"Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body."
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"When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked."
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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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"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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"Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it."
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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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"When your heart, mind and soul is in harmony - you walk with love, you walk with beauty."
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"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
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"I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry."
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