Mindfulness Quotes - Page 5

• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Letting Go, Mean, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (1991). “The Heart of the Buddha”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Passing Moments, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.50, Random House

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• You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Circles, Humanity, Moments

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2012). “Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life”, p.62, Sounds True

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• Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Prayer, Reading, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.24, Beacon Press

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• Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

  Amit Ray

  Life Is, Moments, Collections

  "Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath". Book by Amit Ray, 2015.

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• Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mind, Attention, Purpose

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• Love is never giving up and yet a lot of surrender. Self-care. Truth. Trust. Openness. Growth. Courage. Faith. Collaboration. Compassion. Communication. Affection. Support. Passion. Joy. Warmth. Mindfulness. Rigorous self-work. Sympatico, empathy, flow. Forgiveness.

  Claudia Black

  Giving Up, Communication, Passion

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• You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

  Stephen Levine

  Joy, Ongoing, Birth

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Living Right, Effort

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• Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Buddhist, Elephants

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• Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

  Ellen Goodman

  Ideas, Savour

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Looks, Weak Points

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• Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 13, 2013

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• In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.

  David Richo

  Appreciation, Tree, Agendas

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• There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Reality, Problem, Ifs

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• Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Play, People

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

  James Joyce

  Past, Plunge

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.387, e-artnow

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• At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Mind, Moments

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• Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Asking

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Heart, Mind, Asian

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness”, p.2, Hachette UK

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• Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Practice, Generosity

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silly, Mean, Angel

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Yoga, Home

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2010.

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