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Mindfulness Quotes
"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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"Be still! Or life will pass you by."
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"If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish that it would be nice if she could go home with you. Having such intents towards food and eating leads one to become increasingly possessed with turmoil (worldly suffering). This is why the Lord has said for us to enjoy but not become the enjoyer, to do something which we like but do not become habituated about it."
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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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"Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive."
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"Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live."
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"Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all."
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"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future."
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"Living in active consciousness is being in the "here and now."
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"When you travel, be fully present in the place of voyage."
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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 is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available."
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"Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal."
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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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"If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room."
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"You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were."
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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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"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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"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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"We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation."
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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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"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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"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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"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
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"Because today after all, is all we knew."
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"When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there."
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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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"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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"Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!"
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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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"I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness."
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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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"1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does."
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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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"When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones, that is considered equanimity."
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"Your presence is enough to go through life. More and more you observe life, more and more you can let lose yourself with the free flow of life."
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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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"If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost."
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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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"There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly."
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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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"When you practice mindfulness, you bloom like a flower."
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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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"The important thing to remember is not to forget."
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