Mindfulness Quotes - Page 13

• With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Meditation, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

  Shinzen Young

  Pain, Unconditional Love, Expression

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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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• We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Moving, Independence

  "The Collected Works of C. G. Jung".

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

  James D. Watson

  Thinking, Lunch, Purpose

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• If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mean, Artist, Reality

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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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

  Focus, Independence, Tasks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.205, Penguin

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• In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Action

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• Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Jealous, Buddhism

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• First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

  Laozi

  Community, World, Firsts

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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Daily Tasks, Perfection

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• We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Trying

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• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

  Jane Austen

  Maturity, Self, Growth

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• This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

  Marion Ross

  Use, Portal, Moments

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• To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

  Deepak Chopra

  Here And Now, Sensitivity

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• You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Quality, Increase, Length

  Ryuho Okawa (2013). “An Unshakable Mind: How to Overcome Life’s Difficulties”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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• Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

  Napoleon Hill

  Greatness, Here And Now

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• All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not freely take upon ourselves this pre-acceptance of the pain and torment, they will be visited upon us in an otherwise necessary individual and universal collapse. Anyone disassociated from his origin and his spiritually sensed task acts against origin. Anyone who acts against it has neither a today nor a tomorrow.

  Jean Gebser

  Pain, Acceptance, Tasks

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• To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.

  Masao Abe

  Thinking, Views, Practice

  Masao Abe, William R. LaFleur (1989). “Zen and Western Thought”, p.57, University of Hawaii Press

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• Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

  Polly Young-Eisendrath

  Emotional, Roots, Imagination

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• Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Stories, Life Story, Prove

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• Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Car

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• You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Gains

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• 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

  Rocks, Serenity, Life Is

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

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