Mindfulness Quotes - Page 23

• We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Pride, Desire, May

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• Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

  Russell Targ

  Past, Anxiety, Guilt

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• As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

  Ayya Khema

  Long, People, Ego

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• Mindfulness is not just a word or a
  discourse by the Buddha, but a
  meaningful state of mind. It means
  we have to be here now, in this very
  moment, and we have to know what
  is happening internally and
  externally. It means being alert to
  our motives and learning to change
  unwholesome thoughts and
  emotions into wholesome ones
  Mindfulness is a mental activity that
  in due course eliminates all
  suffering.

  Ayya Khema

  Meaningful, Mind, Suffering

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• In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

  Rolf Edberg

  Life, Simple, Self

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• With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that's come after the judgement, we've often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.

  Mark Coleman

  Judgement, Way, Emotion

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• Mindfulness can create a foundation for emotional bonding that allows you to be fully present and authentic during dialogues or a discussion. A mindful approach to entering difficult conversations keeps both parties out of the heat of emotions and able to explore the needs, wants and interests on both sides. Judgement is suspended and, with a strong bond, the mind is able to focus on and look for the mutual benefit of the common goal.

  George Kohlrieser

  Strong, Party, Emotional

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• Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

  Gil Fronsdal

  Opportunity, Giving, Helping

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.61, Insight Meditation Center

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• The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Missing, Attention, Moments

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• Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

  Steve Hagen

  Philosophy, Smell, Medicine

  Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.112, Tuttle Publishing

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• Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

  Mark Coleman

  Space, Giving, Tools

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• Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say: "He lost his life" or "my life," as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stars, Animal, Expression

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

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• Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

  David Richo

  Spiritual, Practice, Meditation

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

  Nhat Hanh

  Letting Go, Joy, Ease

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

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• I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Practice, Old Habits

  "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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• The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Childhood, Too Late

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• I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.

  Regina Taylor

  Writing, Garden, Imagination

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

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• If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Hard Work, Buddhism

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• If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

  Robert Hass

  Teacher, Reading, People

  "Poetry Man". Interview with Joan Smith, www.sfgate.com. March 31, 1996.

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• The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Thinking, Looks

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Life, Inspiring, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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