Quotes on Mindfulness

[Yuray]

Drug abuse will allow others to see the person that should never be seen. Better dress for the occasion.....miller

Be careful what you become known for, unless of course that is what you want to be remembered for.......miller

At some point you may be in a position where you have to decide which is more important, the truth, or a belief.......miller

In order to honour my mother and father, as the 5th commandment prescribes, a great deal of therapy was required to dismiss the brutality of my childhood........miller

As I grow older, more judgmental, and more critical, I can’t help but notice how those things I condemn, seem to grow and prosper.....miller.

A successful accomplishment, perhaps the most successful you will ever attain, is to find through trial and error, a balance between the way things are, and the way you want things to be.....miller


To declare an event in your past, as the best moment of your life, cannot be true, unless it is said with your dying breath......miller

 

[Daniel E.]

A successful accomplishment, perhaps the most successful you will ever attain, is to find through trial and error, a balance between the way things are, and the way you want things to be.....miller

Good one :2thumbs:

 

[Daniel E.]

From MindfullyChange:

"Never let lack of money interfere with having fun." ~ Unknown

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life." ~ Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is two forces moving in opposite directions. Sit still." ~ Buddhist proverb

"The soul would have no rainbows if the eyes had no tears." ~ Native American proverb

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn…" ~ C. S. Lewis

"There is deep wisdom within our very beings if we can only come to our senses and feel it." ~ Elizabeth Behnke

"Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning." ~ Buddhist proverb

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said." ~ Peter Drucker

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." ~ Walter Elliott

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” ~ General George S. Patton

"Open minds lead to open doors." ~ Unknown

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ~ S?ren Kierkegaard

 

[Daniel E.]

When considering the past or the future, dear apprentice, be mindful of the present.
If, while considering the past, you become caught in the past, lost in the past, or enslaved by the past, then you have forgotten yourself in the present.
If, while considering the future, you become caught in the future, lost in the future, or enslaved by the future, then you have forgotten yourself in the present.
Conversely, when considering the past, if you do not become caught, lost, or enslaved by the past, then you have remained mindful of the present.
And if, when considering the future, you do not become caught, lost, or enslaved in the future, then you have remained mindful of the present.

~ Matthew Bortolin, The Dharma of Star Wars

All things are subject to change, and nothing can last forever.
Look at your hand, young one, and ask yourself, “Whose hand is this?”
Can your hand correctly be called “yours”?
Or is it the hand of your mother, the hand of your father.
Reflect on the impermanent nature of your hand,
the hand that you once sucked in your mother’s womb.

~ Matthew Bortolin, The Dharma of Star Wars

 

[Daniel E.]

"Emptiness is actually openness."

~ Lara Honos-Webb, Listening to Depression

 

[Daniel E.]

"The fastest progress...is achieved by those who are content with the stage they are on now. It is the deepening of that contentment that ripens into the next stage."

~ Ajahn Brahmavamso

 

[Daniel E.]

?It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently.?

~ Jung

 

[Daniel E.]

?No moment is the same as any other. Each is unique and contains unique possibilities. Beginner's mind reminds us of this simple truth."

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living

 

[Daniel E.]

"Meditation is definitely not healthy for the ego. It is not possible to meditate unless you are more interested in finding out what is going on than in maintaining a particular idea of who you are."

~ Reginald A. Ray

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"If you think something is missing in your life, maybe it's you...more of the real you."

~ Robert Holden, PhD

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"Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. Objects and people disappear; you lose a bracelet, a friend, the key. Everything is familiar except that there is one item less, one missing element. Or you get lost, in which case the world has become larger than your knowledge of it. Either way, there is a loss of control. Imagine yourself streaming through time shedding gloves, umbrellas, wrenches, books, friends, homes, names. This is what the view looks like if you take a rear-facing seat on the train. Looking forward you constantly acquire moments of arrival, moments of realization, moments of discovery. The wind blows your hair back and you arc greeted by what you have never seen before."

~ Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost


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Wake up.
Life is transient,
Swiftly passing.
Be aware of the great matter.
Don't waste time.

~ Buddhist proverb

 

[Daniel E.]

“In a dualistic universe, downhill can mean only one thing."

~ Sharon Salzberg

 

[Daniel E.]

"You cannot finally hold on to anything, just as you cannot inhale and hold your breath indefinitely. The breath teaches you about the process of life, of gathering in and giving out, of giving up the old in order to make space for the new."

~ Vessantara, The Breath: The Art of Meditation

 

[Daniel E.]

The way of the Buddha is to know yourself.
To know yourself is to forget yourself.
To forget yourself is to be awakened by all things.

~ Dogen

 

[Daniel E.]

[SIZE=-1]What nature requires is obtainable,
and within easy reach.
It's for the superfluous we sweat.
[/SIZE] --Seneca

 

[ggb]

Deepak Chopra
Sustainable love reqiures sobriety not melodrama

DeepakChopra
I am in love with love and love is in love with me --Rumi

Maya Angelou
When I was a volunteer mute and began to speak again, I realized I had left my voice, my voice had not left me.

Pamela Gregory
Wherever attention goes, energy flows.

Deepak Chopra
-If you find yourself doing or saying what you habitually do, catch yourself. Pause and stand back. Leave an open space for something new.

-Love awakens when we are open, receptive & present.

 

[HBas]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~William James

 

[Daniel E.]

From the Bill Moyers interview with Joseph Campbell:

MOYERS: I like the idea that it is not the destination that counts, it’s the journey.

CAMPBELL: Yes. As Karlfried Graf Durckheim says, "When you’re on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey." The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. Pollen is the life source, the pollen path is the path to the center. The Navajo say, "Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path."

 

[Justaday]

"This too, shall pass"

I said this to myself the other day when I was experiencing some grief. I mindfully chose to allow it and accept feeling what I am feeling, rather than trying to control it or panic about it, knowing that I'm okay and this is okay to be feeling this and knowing that it passes and I'll be fine.

"Let it Be"

"Breathing In (fresh breath of air)
Breathing Out" (releasing it)

 

[Daniel E.]

?Mindfulness is not an evasion or an escape. It means being here, present, and totally alive. It is true freedom?and without this freedom, there is no happiness.?

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[making_art]

"And to non-believers, I request you to try to be warm-hearted."
Dalai Lama

 

[Daniel E.]

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts
and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' ?Kabat-Zinn

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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there?s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

~ Arthur Gordon