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“Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.”
“What hes looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesnt want that because it is all around him. Every steps an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to...”
“In the strictest sense, we cannot actually think about life and reality at all, because this would have to include thinking about thinking, thinking about thinking about thinking, and so ad infinit...”
“To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it.”
“The mistake is to assume that the way it feels at the moment is the way it will feel forever.”
“The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the mome...”
“The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.”
“We do so much, we run so quickly, the situation is difficult, and many people say, "Don't just sit there, do something." But doing more things may make the situation worse. So you should say, "Don'...”
“Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the...”
“Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.”
“Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting...”
“The standard way of reducing stress in our culture is to put as much energy as possible into trying to arrive at a moment that matches our preferences. This ensures that we feel some level of stres...”
“By learning to allow different types of discomfort to simply stay in the room with you, without your scrambling for a button to push (real or metaphorical), you make discomfort matter less.The pool...”
“Stay present, stay conscious.”
“Mindfulness is intimacy with all things.”
“You are a miracle. Remind yourself often.”
“To still your mind , first still your tongue.”
“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.”
“One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have t...”
“...but we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have...As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can wr...”
