Quotes on Mindfulness

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“Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.”

—Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

 

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"We all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us?"

 

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

 

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"You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."




~ Khalil Gibran

 

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“It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs.”

― Andrew Matthews, Follow Your Heart

 

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The Harder Life Gets, the Softer We Need to Be

Strength and toughness are great skills, but it's our ability to relax and roll, when life gets hard, that's the real key to resilience and wellbeing.

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"See if there’s a way to let go of the fight with reality, even when you absolutely despise your reality. Consider whether there’s anywhere or any way to relax with and within the reality that’s here, for now."

 

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"The Buddha described the core of our suffering as not remembering who we really are."

~ Tara Brach

 

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Mark Epstein - Wikipedia

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"In resisting trauma and in defending ourselves from feeling its full impact, we deprive ourselves of its truth."[7]

"I think it's so easy to extrapolate from this moment as if we know what's going to happen in a week, or a month, or three months, or six months, or a year. And this is one of those situations. The Buddha was always talking about it, of the importance of uncertainty. That really, we don't know what the next moment is going to bring."

"In this time when people are much more secluded than they're used to, when they're quarantined, when they're in the home, when they don't quite know what to do with themselves, there's a real opportunity to bring this quality of mindful awareness to the particulars of one's life. There's a real opportunity to be much more alive, and awake, and aware in one's day-to-day life."

 

[Daniel E.]

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” ~Pema Chodron

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

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[Daniel E.]

Use the '20-5-3' Rule To Make Yourself Happier and Stronger

Americans spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. This three-number formula for how much time to spend in nature fixes that.

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In nature, our brains enter a mode called “soft fascination.” Hopman described it as a mindfulness-like state that restores and builds the resources you need to think, create, process information, and execute tasks. It’s mindfulness without the meditation. A short daily nature walk—or even a walk down a tree-lined street—is a great option for people who aren’t keen on sitting and focusing on their breath. But turn off your phone—alerts from it can kick you out of soft-fascination mode.

 

[Daniel E.]

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

― Saul Bellow, Conversations with Saul Bellow

 

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6 Reasons Why Some People Resist Self-Compassion

Compassion is what we experience when we notice suffering in another and feel motivated to provide help.

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If we practice having compassion for ourselves, that is one less person in the world in need of, but not receiving, compassion.

 

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“We suffer from a repression of the sublime.”

-- Roberto Assagioli

 

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Zen and the Art of Making a Living

First published in 1991, 'Zen and the Art of Making' a Living is the life-changing book that helped revolutionize the career planning field by offering a new vision of work. This new edition has been updated throughout with up-to-the-minute contact information and hundreds of new biographical...

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[Daniel E.]

"Remember that all is opinion."

"Is somebody afraid of change? But what can take place without change?"

"We were born for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth. So to fight each other is not natural."

— Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations

 

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Ουδείς δε θνητών ταις τύχαις ακήρατος. There is not a man alive who has wholly escaped misfortune. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Heracles

 

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Ταράττει τους ανθρώπους ου τα πράγματα, αλλά τα περί των πραγμάτων δόγματα. Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher