Mindfulness quotes

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◆ Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh100

◆ 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 Richo99

◆ Without giving up hope—that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

- Pema Ch?dr?n99

◆ Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ If you're reading these words, perhaps it's because something has kicked open the door for you, and you're ready to embrace change. It isn't enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

- Sharon Salzberg99

◆ 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 Levine99

◆ Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

- Sharon Salzberg99

◆ Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

- Sharon Salzberg99

◆ True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche99

◆ One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ You cannot control the results, only your actions.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn99

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

- Deepak Chopra99

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

- Sharon Salzberg99