Mindfulness Quotes - Page 17

• It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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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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• The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Heart, Our World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Tired, Deaf And Blind, Juan

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• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking action or getting sucked into the story. Like house guests, eventually they all leave. We become more attuned to being a container for those things and less identified with them.

  Barnet Bain

  Moving, House, Feelings

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

  Arianna Huffington

  Exercise, Thinking, Meditation

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Winning, Self

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• Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Listening, Mind

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

  Tara Brach

  Drama, Feelings, Training

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Spiritual, Yoga, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Expression, Practice, Growth

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
  many things may come to the surface.
  Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
  As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
  All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
  or rather, of one's mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Watches, May

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• Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Baby, Roots, Practice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Thinking, Woven

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

  Pat Conroy

  Eye, Live In The Moment, Moments

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.302, Random House

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• You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Order, Practice

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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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.

  Mark Coleman

  Judging, Ordinary, Different

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tea, Teeth, Breakfast

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Mistake, Compassion

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Years, Practice

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• If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Powerful, Buddhism

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• There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, What Matters, Down And

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• What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Attention

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