Mindfulness Quotes - Page 18

• Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

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• If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Best Effort, Ifs

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• It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Giving

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• There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Mind

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• Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Meditation

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• In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Thinking

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• To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Giving

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• Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mind

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• It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Mind

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• And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

  Chade-Meng Tan

  Mind, Power Of The Mind, Ability

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Cells, Practice

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Bipolar, Needs

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• As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

  Amit Ray

  Spring, Flower, Compassion

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• Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discipline, Attention

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• When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Live In The Moment, Sparks, Moments

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• Yesterday is a cancelled check;
  Tomorrow is a promissory note;
  Today is the only cash you have,
  so spend it wisely.

  Kim Lyons

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Painting, Canvas, Clear

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• Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.

  Huineng

  Determination, Meditation, Together

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• In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Innocence, Moments

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• Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away.

  Gautama Buddha

  Faith, Determination, Wish

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• When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Decay

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• The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

  Confucius

  Song, Teaching, Thinking

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

  Jack Kornfield

  Powerful, Balance, Way

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Compassion, Mind

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