Mindfulness quotations

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◆ Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh99

◆ Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

- Bo Lozoff98

◆ Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche98

◆ Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.

- Allan Lokos98

◆ Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

- Sharon Salzberg98

◆ Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on—information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.

- Mark Williams98

◆ Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you'll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.

- Holly Mosier98

◆ A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

- Eric Schmidt98

◆ If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don't need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it, from them; and the way things have been going, we're not sure we'll be able to give it back to them in decent shape. And who are our children, actually? They are us, because they are our own continuation. So we've been shortchanging our own selves. Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless overborrowing. The more we borrow, the more we loser. That's why it's critical that we wake up and see we don't need to do that anymore. What's already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy. Only that kind of insight will get us, each one of us, to stop engaging in the compulsive, self-sabotaging behaviors of our species. We need a collective awakening. One Buddha is not enough. All of us have to become Buddhas in order for our planet to have a chance. Fortunately, we have the power to wake up, to touch enlightenment from moment to moment, in our very own ordinary and, yes, busy lives. So let's start right now. Peace is your every breath.

- Thích Nh?t H?nh98

◆ You actions are your only true belongings.

- Allan Lokos98

◆ Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.

- Holly Mosier98

◆ When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

- Stephen Richards98

◆ Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

- Daniel J. Siegel98

◆ Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.

- Sylvia Boorstein98

◆ [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

- Stephen Batchelor98