“Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.” HappinessJoyEnergyPeacePracticeDependsHabitMindfulnessNegativeEmbraceRecognizingTransformingPeace And Happiness Author:Nhat Hanh
“The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.” WayMomentsHappensLostMeditationHabitMindfulnessMercySpendingSpellsWakingOur ThoughtsLost In Thought Author:Sam Harris
“I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.” PeopleThinkingAsksKnowingTroubleListeningPrayingHabitBlessingMindfulnessAtheistSirensAmbulance Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.” ThinkingLoveLifeShouldDoeSoulCommonEnvironmentHabitGratitudeMindfulnessStrongerBlameDetermineLovelySurroundingsLovely Life Author:William James
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveAgeFallKnownMiddleKeysHabitTruth IsDiseaseNormalApproachMindfulnessWake UpEverydayPatternsFalling ApartMiddle AgesPortalMidlife Author:Christiane Northrup
“When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products, the mental attitudes are insincere. They are self-deceptions that we create to justify habits that in our hearts we know are wrong, but to which we have become attached.” KnowsHeartSelfAnimalAttitudeCompassionProductsHabitMindfulnessEatingBuddhistDeceptionFishingJustifyHuntingVirtuousSelf DeceptionMental AttitudeEating AnimalsInsincere Author:Norm Phelps
“I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.” PeoplePersonsSelfCoursesNumbersPracticeKindnessMeditationHabitBenefitsJudgmentMindfulnessCriticismRuthlessVaryLoving KindnessOld HabitsMeditation Mindfulness Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.” WayFirstsKindDifferentCan DoAbilitySeeingAwarenessJudgingHabitMindfulnessOrdinaryStrategyNotesAll KindsClarityOur ThoughtsLenses Author:Mark Coleman
“I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.” ThinkingSometimesDoneProblemSpiritualCommonCreativeHabitMindfulnessEmbraceResponseCreative ProcessDetachment Author:Charles Eisenstein
“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.” I CanMomentsFoundAttentionCompassionKindnessHabitSkillsPerceptionMindfulnessTrainingPerceivePresent MomentProjectionProvocativeLatentLoving KindnessOld HabitsSkills Training Author:Sharon Salzberg