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“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.”

Looks Kind May Littles Stills Voice Attention Kindness Manifest Courtesy Parades Life Happiness Tease Affectionate

Author:Laurence Sterne

“A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.”

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Author:Adrien Brody

“The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.”

Way Looks Children Eye Beautiful Night Sound Attention Kindness Sky Habit Rain Witness Pauses Night Sky Savoring Sound Of Rain

Author:Tara Brach

“It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.”

Mind Heart Body Seems Energy Imagination Attention Kindness Enthusiasm Release Mind And Body Small Acts

Book:A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit

Source: A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit

“I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one.”

Knows Wells Helping Energy Force Wish Attention Kindness Alive Conditions Produce Divine Source Connected Well Being Manifest Contemplating Dormant

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us).”

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Author:Tara Brach

“The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.”

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Author:Tara Brach

“In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“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.”

“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Care Form Attention Kindness Pure Empathy Caring Generosity Consideration Caring For Others Generosity And Kindness Kindness Generosity Liberality Your Generosity Pureness

Author:Simone Weil

“Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.”

Real Friendship Simple Attention Kindness Honesty Vulnerability Openness Real Friends Acts Of Kindness Simple Acts Of Kindness

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia