Mindfulness Quotes - Page 26

• We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Safe, Return

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Penguin

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• Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Taken, Healing, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Love Letter to the Earth”, p.52, Parallax Press

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• I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

  Alan Cohen

  Mind, Causes, Effects

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.36, Penguin

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• "Resting in awareness" is one of those phrases used a lot by people who practice mindfulness. But when I tried to do it, it wasn't restful and I worried I wasn't doing it right. I kept thinking about work.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, People, Awareness

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

  Justin Vernon

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Independence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Views, Effort

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• When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Attitude, Heart

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• It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Ocean, Mind, Wave

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short daily mindfulness practice in beginners also improves memory, to the point that a group of students who volunteered for a study got significantly better scores on their graduate school entrance exams.

  Daniel Goleman

  Memories, School, Loss

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• Always make new mistakes.

  Esther Dyson

  Motivational, Motivation, Mistake

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• I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Emotional, Clarity, Equanimity

  Source: eomega.org

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• If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  Jim Carrey

  Karma, Pain, Regret

  "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

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• We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Wise, Insperational

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• A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

  James Allen

  Life, Character, Men

  James Allen (2013). “As A Man Thinketh (Annotated with Biography about James Allen)”, p.20, Golgotha Press

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• Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.

  Joy Bryant

  Sleep, Cutting, Helping

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

  Maria Bamford

  Buddhist, Jobs, Feel Better

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• We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Running, Live In The Moment

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• With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Business, Eye

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 46 (1798)

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• Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Focus, Awareness, Excellent

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• Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.

  B. J. Gallagher Hateley

  Teach, Thich Nhat Hanh

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