Mindfulness Quotes - Page 12

• The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jobs, Responsibility, Simple

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Cells, Practice

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Secret, Mind, Said

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.143, Penguin UK

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• Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Self, Meditation Practice, Differences

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Wonder Of Life, Moments

  "Oprah Talks to Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Men, Emotional

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• Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Garden, Practice

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• Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Helping, Well Being

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Single, Wisdom, Loneliness

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277

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• Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

  Richard Gere

  Meditation, Quality, Illusion

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• Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Knowledge, Knowing

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Balance, Calmness, Retiring

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• Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Cognition, Mets

  Daniel J. Siegel (2007). “The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being”, p.186, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

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• All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

  Sharon Salzberg

  Ignorance, Suffering, Want

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Order

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• It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Attention, Engagement

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• Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mindlessness, on the other hand, or "no-mindness" as it has been called, is a condition of such complete absorption that there is not vestige of self-awareness.

  Philip Kapleau

  Self, Hands, Able

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• Each moment is a place you've never been.

  Mark Strand

  Time, Stress, Fresh Start

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Knopf

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• With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

  Huston Smith

  Thinking, Errors, Mind

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• Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Hope, Circles

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Enlightenment, Needs

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• I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Atheist, Blessing, Thinking

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