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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi
Contentment is your essence. It is not immoral to desire it. What is wrong is searching for it beyond when it lies within.
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Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Awareness implies focusing deliberately, in the here and now, without bias.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
The basis of all psychological disorders is resistance to authentic agony.
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Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.
Mary Morrissey
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We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
Eckhart Tolle
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Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.
Brené Brown
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
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In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky
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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Eckhart Tolle
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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
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Only the present moment contains life.
Nhat Hanh
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
Pema Chodron
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Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
Swami Satchidananda
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In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
Jack Kornfield
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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
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You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.
Ryuho Okawa
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Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda
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Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.
Paul Brunton
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Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M Dodd
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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
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Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
Pema Chodron
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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
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The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Nhat Hanh
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A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.
Paul Valery
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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
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
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I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.
John Shelby Spong
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Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
Napoleon Hill
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Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.
Aristotle
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
Robert Bly
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Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
Jack Kornfield
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Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
Rumi
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We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
Andy Puddicombe
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Sharon Salzberg
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If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.
Gautama Buddha
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Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.
Sharon Salzberg
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Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.
Kent Nerburn