Quotes on Mindfulness

[Daniel E.]

Somatic OCD and Reclaiming Mindfulness – New Harbinger Publications, Inc

While mindfulness is one of the chief strategies for alleviating the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which is used to call attention to

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It can help to be mindful of whether you’re attending or overattending to the present moment; if you’re over attending, to “acknowledge that your mind has taken the act of meditation and shifted it to a performance review.”

 

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"It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning."

~ Mircea Eliade


"If you think it's you against the Universe, who do you think is going to win?"

~ Robert Thurman

 

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“We all have two lives. The second one begins when we realize we only have one.”

– Rabbi Shlomo Seidenfeld

 

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"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."

~ African proverb

 

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The writers who have most to give us often do most violence to our prejudices, particularly if they are our own contemporaries."

- Virginia Woolf

 

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Almost all non-literate mythology has a trickster-hero of some kind. … And there’s a very special property in the trickster: he always breaks in, just as the unconscious does, to trip up the rational situation. He’s both a fool and someone who’s beyond the system. And the trickster represents all those possibilities of life that your mind hasn’t decided it wants to deal with. The mind structures a lifestyle, and the fool or trickster represents another whole range of possibilities. He doesn’t respect the values that you’ve set up for yourself, and smashes them.

-- Joseph Campbell

 

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"What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”

“Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.”

“Your problem at present is this: you’re afraid to dream, and yet you need to dream.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I used to like Ursula K. Leguin's sci-fi novels.

 

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"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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"God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts."

~ Sylvia Plath

 

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~ Bodhipaksa, Living as a River

 

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This Is Why You Are Addicted To Your Thoughts Without Knowing It

Regurgitated Thoughts

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Our thoughts are our best friend and our worst enemy. They come and go from our mind and even though they are impermanent, it often feels like they have taken up residency in our mind like squatters refusing to leave. No matter how hard you try to remove negative thoughts, they keep showing up. What if it isn’t necessary to drive them away, but see them as the sum of the thinking process?

What I mean is, negative thoughts is a label we assign to disempowering thoughts we don’t like. I would argue that they can be useful and our task is to integrate them into the wholeness of our being instead of trying to banish them. Thoughts are addictive when we cannot be alone in silence for more than five minutes. This is the feedback I’ve receive over many years from clients who are stressed. When I invite them to find five minutes a day to meditate, they’d rather have a surgical procedure performed than be alone with their thoughts.

 

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“Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.”

“Even truth can be deceptive, whatever its appearance.”

― Karl Jaspers, Tragedy Is Not Enough

 

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Amazon.ca : Calm Within the Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency

Our modern conception of resiliency as “fighting” or being “tougher” is misguided. Learning happens when we are able to trust and feel safe; fear and shame are barriers, not facilitators, for authentic growth, acceptance, and change.

 

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Error-related negativity - Wikipedia

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Some researchers argue that error-related negativity or error-related positivity is in fact, reward-related positivity...How we conceptualize neural responses to gains/losses allows us to further understand the underlying neural processes.

 

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"Thoughts are just stories."

~ unknown

 

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