Quotes and Sayings About Mindfulness
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
-- Ajahn Chah -
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
-- Alan Watts -
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Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.
-- Alice Gardner -
World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.
-- Amit RaySource : Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.40, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS
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We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
-- Andy Puddicombe -
Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
-- Asvaghosa -
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Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
-- Ayya Khema -
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
-- B. Alan Wallace -
There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
-- Barbara Coloroso -
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
-- Carl Jung -
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.
-- Daniel J. Siegel -
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Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck -
Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.
-- Danny Gregory -
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.
-- David Richo -
At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
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Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
-- Deepak Chopra -
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.
-- Deepak Chopra -
We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.
-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche -
The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.
-- Dipa Ma -
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
-- Dustin Moskovitz -
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If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
-- Eckhart Tolle