Mindfulness Quotes
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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."
"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."
"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)"
"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."
"Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow."
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."
"Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world."
"Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are."
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
"Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes."
"There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group."
"If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives."
"Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)"
"Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world."
"Treat everyone you meet as if they were you."
"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."
"Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter."
"We have a right to decide how we want our bodies to look and feel, but unfortunately we do not exercise these rights. Instead, we tend to drift along, victims of our own ignorance of the fact that we can have what we want, if we are willing to take that first step toward developing the self-discipline to govern our thoughts."
"The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand."
"We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one."
"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."
"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."
"Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who'are crying for the place where you are today"
"My mind’s flight rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel"
"To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better."
"Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart."
"Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable."
"Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don’t sense it."
"Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one’s friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion."
"When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person."
"From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs."
"Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person’s life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role."
"Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression."
"There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity."
"True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands."
"Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth."
"It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all."
"When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual."
"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
"Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it."
"A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it."
"The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely."
"It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy."
"Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan"
Carlos Castañeda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
"Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom."
"One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself."
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