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Mindfulness Quotes
"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."
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"Mindfulness is living in the moment without judging it."
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"Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!"
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"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet."
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"This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe."
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"Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive."
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"In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: "Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive."
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"There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air."
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"And why was I sitting on the curb? I honestly didn't know, but it was better than being inside my apartment, all alone. And yeah, I was alone out here, but it didn't feel that way. I was pretty sure there was a squirrel over by the tree, so that counted for something, right?"
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"You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen."
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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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"Don't be attached to outcomes. Enjoy your experiences for what they are, what you have gained and what you have learned."
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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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"When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it."
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"Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety."
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"Savor life authentically."
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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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"We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance."
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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 your heart, mind and soul is in harmony - you walk with love, you walk with beauty."
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"1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does."
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"Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment."
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"Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life."
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"By Soulfully understanding all you are - there is no need to fret about what to do next, or when."
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"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
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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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"When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there."
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"Don't think or judge, just listen."
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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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"Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you."
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"Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
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"It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it."
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"We all know that Hurry is the main cause of Worry. Yet we Hurry and Worry and miss the most beautiful experience called Life."
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"Feelings don't try to kill you,even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it."
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"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
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"Make the best of what you have today.Today is the day.The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment."
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"Don't live in the past ' you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now ' it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed."
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"Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!"
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"Because today after all, is all we knew."
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"The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty."
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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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"Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness. Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention."
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"When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too."
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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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"Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem."
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"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."
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