Mindfulness proverbs

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◆ It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

- Victoria Moran98

◆ The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

- Dante Alighieri98

◆ As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

- Jack Kornfield98

◆ When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

- Swami Satchidananda98

◆ Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.

- Mary Rose O'Reilley98

◆ . . . I feel we don't really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can't learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

- Swami Satchidananda98

◆ Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

- Ravi Ravindra98

◆ 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 Salzberg98

◆ Patience has all the time it needs.

- Allan Lokos98

◆ One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

- Allan Lokos98

◆ Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

- Sharon Salzberg98

◆ It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

- Orna Ross98

◆ Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.

- Doug Dillon98

◆ Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

- Deepak Chopra98

◆ We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

- Sharon Salzberg98