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Mindfulness Quotes
"Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it."
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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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"With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them."
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"Accept the past, dream of the future, but live in the moment."
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"I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me,swimming in the sea of myself,learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand."
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"Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there."
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"The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise " not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful."
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"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."
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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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"Busyness chokes deep thinking."
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"I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do 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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"Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is "Will this last forever?"
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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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"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
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"The important thing to remember is not to forget."
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"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."
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"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
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"Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out."
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"If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It's so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life."
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"Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself."
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"Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!"
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"Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom."
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"The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence."
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"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
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"In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of."
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"Slant narrowed his eyes. 'Do the Clans walk alone into the final battle?Half Moon flattened her ears. 'Never alone! She lifted her chin. 'I will fight alongside Jayfeather.Broken Shadow unsheathed her claws. 'And I will fight alongside my son.'I will fight beside Jagged Lightning and my kits to defeat this darkness. Owl Feather's eyes sparked.Bluestar thrashed her tail. 'And I will die a tenth time to defend ThunderClan!'These cats will never stand alone, Half Moon declared. 'We are with them just as we have always been."
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"Observe your internal and external world and rise above it."
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"If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream."
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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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"People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning."
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"You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire."
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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
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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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"It's the inward attention that takes you into the depth of the mind."
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"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."
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"Just be, right now, here; & breathe. Stop questioning every little thing, stop analysing how it should be and let go of the control, you hold so tightly onto; and beging to trust the magic of yourself."
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"When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape."
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"I keep forgetting how important it is to just be still sometimes. Without a phone, or a TV, or a friend. Alone. Quiet. Connected to nothing, and everything, all at once. Undistracted."
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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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"Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power."
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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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"By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so."
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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 you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment."
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"Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that "I am is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite."
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"You can let go of all that stuff you thought was real when you know it's just a game. What a relief, what a state of grace that brings."
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"The chaos around you is none of your business: your business is how you feel about it."
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"Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today."
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