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“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”

Source: Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program

“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.”

Levels Attention Meditation Mindfulness Slow Down Slowing

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”

Needs Inspiration Remember Difficult Practice Meditation Mindfulness Live In The Present Mindful Living Meditation Practice Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”

“Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”

Knows Helping Acting Vision Meditation Seeing Society Mindfulness Buddhist Awe

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

“True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.”

Universe Meditation Awareness Expression Mindfulness Encounters Vigorous

Book:Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

Source: Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

“Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.”

Important Form Results Effort Practice Meditation Periods Mindfulness

Author:Dalai Lama

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.”

Purpose Pay Attention Practice Meditation Events Bears Mindfulness Ordinary Enlightenment Extraordinary Pay Attention Ordinary Life Meditation Practice

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”

Way Together Meditation Birth Quiet Judgment Mindfulness Determination Destruction Calm Staying Stillness

Author:Huineng