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• Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.

  Antonya Nelson

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Teaching, Eight, Perfect

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• Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Feelings, Desire

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• Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Motivation, Meditation, Watches

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• You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

  Nick Littlemore

  Home, Way, Kind

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• Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Play, Meditation

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.83, Workman Publishing

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• There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Space

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Practice, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1999). “Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966”, p.69, Penguin

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dirty, Feet, Mind

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Teaching, Realization

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• Emotions like guilt and shame cut you off from web of existence and that causes inflammation in the body. I would recommend that you go to a level of awareness where you can be an observer of your thoughts and emotions and use mindfulness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cutting, Guilt, Use

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Nowadays, mindfulness has become a catch-all word, but the general principle of trying to be more conscious and aware in our daily life is very important. Along with this, it's helpful to contemplate some of the mind training verses which are designed to take and transform all of the problems we experience.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Training, Mind, Important

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Scratches, Failing

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Character, Carpe Diem

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Quality, Doe, Emotion

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Assessment

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• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Watches

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• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

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• It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

  George Eliot

  Time, Years, Littles

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

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• Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Loving Life, Compassion, Giving

  "Mindfulness in the Modern World". Omega Institute interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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