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Tag Name "Mindfulness" (384)

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Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.
Frederick Lenz
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.
Richard Davidson
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Byron Katie
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When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.
Frederick Lenz
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Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.
Esther Hicks
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
Pema Chodron
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With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
Jack Kornfield
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People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.
Ellen Langer
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Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.
Kedar Joshi
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So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
Gautama Buddha
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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.
Sharon Salzberg
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I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.
Steve Mariucci
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Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.
Frederick Lenz
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.
Frederick Lenz
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Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
Howard Rheingold
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Okakura Kakuzo
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
Chogyam Trungpa
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We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
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