Mark Coleman Quotes

• Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

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  Happy, Nature, Simplicity

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• Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

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  Space, Giving, Mindfulness

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• We're not as different as we think we are.

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  Thinking, Different

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• It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

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  Important, Action, Awareness

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• With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that's come after the judgement, we've often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.

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  Judgement, Mindfulness, Way

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• Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.

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  Judging, Ordinary, Different

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• I was an angry young man, as you say. I was a punk rocker, blaming the government, corporations, and anything external, like my family, for my anger. I was pretty miserable, festering in my own mind. I began to think, there has to be a different way, there has to be another way out.

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded by it. We don't see clearly and tend to do things and say things that are harmful out of the anger because we don't have clarity.

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  Buddhist, Meditation, Emotion

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• I do believe there's a place for anger in spiritual life. Just as a mother protects a child, as parents protect offspring under threat, we need a place for the conscious use of that fire. The positive side of anger as fierceness.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Children

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• I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Sight

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• The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

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  Essence, Folly, Seeing

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• There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.

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  Children, Compassion, Fire

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• We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

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  Causes, Painful, Enough

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• To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.

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  Voice, Childhood, Negativity

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• I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

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  Pain, Games, Lenses

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• We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

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  Compassion, Bully, Forgiving

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• One of the tools I like a lot is the Just Like Me practice. It's one of the empathy practices where we put ourselves in the other's shoes. Rather than get caught up in the difference in the ideologies, we actually come back to the fundamental idea: just like me, this person on the opposite political spectrum wants to be happy, wants to be safe, wants to thrive, wants to be healthy, wants to find peace of mind.

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  Opposites, Practice, Shoes

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• Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.

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  Assessment, Giving, Judging

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• A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

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  Art, Teenager, Rocks

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