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Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”

Life Sun Mindfulness Garden Shining Size Setting Settings Rising Brightness

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.”

Want Form Spirit Practice Balance Mindfulness Gains Increase Who You Are What You Want Sense Of Humor Introspection Willpower Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen.”

Way Needs Mind Happens Action Lost Conditions Balance Mindfulness Confusion Clarity Ease Internals Concentration

Book:Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

Source: Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life

“Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.”

Thinking World Way Writing Kind I Can Real Sometimes Play Hours Serious Mindfulness Creating Noticing Suspension Fictional Worlds

Author:Antonya Nelson

“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.”

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Author:Larry Rosenberg

“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!”

“Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.”

Quality Meditation Periods Mindfulness Illusion Posts Amusing

Author:Richard Gere

“Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.”

Mind Effort Emotion Brain Awareness Information Keys Exercise Mindfulness Training Conscious Driven Thinker Introspection Conscious Mind Raising Awareness

Author:David Bloor

“You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.”

Way Kind Ends Home Mindfulness

Author:Nick Littlemore

“Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.”

World Needs Clear Amount Quiet Mindfulness Accomplish Enormous Being The Best Willingness Crap Expertise Trust Yourself

Author:Danny Gregory

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

Wisdom School Understanding Loneliness Genius Solitude Conversation Mindfulness Single Being Single Feeling Lonely Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Children Helping School Prayer Practice Meditation Quiet Mindfulness Reflection Our Children Contemplation Grades Greatest Gifts Spun Grades In School

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”

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Book:The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit

Source: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit

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