Quotes on Mindfulness

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“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...”

― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

 

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“Sometimes just breathing is enough.”

― Marty Rubin

 

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“When feeling lonely or anxious, most of us have the habit of looking for distractions, which often leads to some form of unwholesome consumption -- whether eating a snack in the absence of hunger, mindlessly surfing the Internet, going on a drive, or reading. Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

 

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"Each day is a little life."

“Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.”

“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”

"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."

― Arthur Schopenhauer

 

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“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.”

– Wayne Dyer

 

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Originally posted by David:

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."

~ Melodie Beattie

 

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There’s a Polynesian saying that frequently comes to my mind: “Standing on a whale, fishing for minnows.” We are standing on a whale. The ground of being is the ground of our being, and the outward turned, we see all these little problems here, but inward, we are the source of them all. That’s the big mystical teaching.

~ Joseph Campbell

 

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"We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center."

~ Richard Wilhelm

 

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"The brain breathes mind like the lungs breathe air."

— Huston Smith

 

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“The real path to happiness, [the researchers] were telling me, comes from dismantling our ego walls–-from letting yourself flow into other people’s stories and letting their stories flow into yours; from pooling your identity, from realizing that you were never you–-alone, heroic, sad-–all along.”

~ Johann Hari

 

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“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”

“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”

“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.”

"Infinite possibility is good, not bad. Meaningless disorder is to be challenged, not feared. Language maps a boundless world of objects and sensations and combinations onto a finite space. The world changes, always mixing the static with the ephemeral.... Everyone's language is different. We can be overwhelmed or we can be emboldened."

~ James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood