190 quotes found
“Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful...When we are not ...”
“Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is ...”
“A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.”
“Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
“Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.”
“We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future...”
“The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.”
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“How heron comesIt is a negligence of the mindnot to notice how at duskheron comes to the pond andstands there in his death robes, perfectservant of the system, hungry, his eyesfull of attention, hi...”
“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leav...”
“There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.”
“You have treasured your MIND more than your 'SELF' and that's the primary source of unhappiness!”
“On the topic of exercise, "It's just as important as brushing your teeth everyday, more important than watching TV or reading online or answering email. Make time for something so crucial to a good...”
“Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.”
“Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewin...”
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thou...”
“In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with n...”
“Do you want to see all the wrong things in our world?You sit right there.Then notice how many people move too fast about in life,they go blind over the miracle of being in the moment.Now, do you wa...”
