Quotes on Mindfulness

[Daniel E.]

"The unfed mind devours itself."

- Gore Vidal

 

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"I don't develop; I am."

~ Pablo Picasso

 

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It's not what you look at that matters.
It's what you see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

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“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be.”

~ Holly Black

 

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In dance, no movement or direction is better or worse than another. This, too, is a way to view of all of life. See the the "good and bad" things that happen to you simply as movements in the dance of life.

~ Daniel Levin

 

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Wandering mind not a happy mind — Harvard Gazette

People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

news.harvard.edu

“Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness. In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged.”

~ Matthew A. Killingsnworth


“The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.”

~ Killingsworth and Gilbert

 

[Daniel E.]

"Children tend to be far more immersed in the moment than adults are; as they are experiencing so many things for the first time, they take each experience in deeply, without being so chronically distracted by the weight of the past or concerns about the future."

~ Dr. Tali Shenfield, How to Teach Mindfulness to Children

 

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“Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.”

― Rebecca Goldstein

 

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Wait: A Love Letter to Those in Despair

Pause, find connection, and choose peace rather than harm when you feel overwhelmed in the crashing ocean of life.

 

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“Choice of attention — to pay attention to this or ignore that — is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer life.”

— W. H. Auden

 

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“You are not a project, you are a person. You are allowed to just be."

~ Seerut K. Chawla

 

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"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

~ Hamlet

 

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"Ritual is the passageway of the soul into the infinite."

~ Algernon Blackwood

 

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A common refrain:

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

~ Source unknown

 

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"... create a clearing in the dense forest of your life ...."

~ Poet Martha Postlewaite

 

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Publisher's description of a free Kindle book, The Art of Letting Go:

"We often struggle to let some people go especially when they made that decision. We question the universe, we question ourselves and we question everyone around us but we never truly get our answers. Letting someone go takes time."

 

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"What is highest in spirit is also deepest in nature...The things that matter most are not at the mercy of the things that matter least."

~ Gates of Prayer