Mindfulness Quotes - Page 27

• Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Practice, Meditation

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

  Annie Lennox

  Life, Appreciation, Future

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• Enough.
  These few words are enough
  If not these few words, this breath
  If not this breath, this sitting here
  This opening to the life we have refused again and again
  Until now
  Until now.

  David Whyte

  Sitting, Few Words, Enough

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• You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you don’t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you don’t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.

  Chan Khong

  Brother, Long, Mind

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• Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Opposites, Imagination, Hypocrisy

  "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom" by Gill Farrer Halls, (p. 162), 2000.

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• You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Thinking, Compassion, Meditation

  "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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• Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Self, Mind, Technique

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.

  Mahasi Sayadaw

  Mean, Cutting, Pieces

  Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Kids, Motherhood

  "Gwyneth Lets Her Guard Down". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Mean, Needs

  "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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• To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

  Tara Brach

  Teacher, Healing, Creating

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Reality

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Empathy, Healer

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Alan Watts

  Self Esteem, Humor, Deep Thought

  Life Magazine, April 21, 1961.

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• Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Heart, Mind, Criticism

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Buddhist, Acceptance, Complicated

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• I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think life goes really quickly and it's very easy to be tuned out, and not be present. That is what I've learned in my parenting experience, and I continue to be mindful of it.

  Matt Ross

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think you have to include your legacy in everything that you do because it makes you proceed with a little more mindfulness when it comes to decision-making, and the lives that you will affect by your choices.

  Tichina Arnold

  Thinking, Choices, Legacy

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Path, Steps, Daily Life

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Practice, Alive

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh, the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk: The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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