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“Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.”

Should Mind States Meditation Awareness Mindfulness Worship Constant State Of Mind Neglected Excluded

Author:Ramakrishna

“Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.”

Existence Mindfulness

Author:Asvaghosa

“The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.”

Mind Form Space Mindfulness Combination Subtle Gross Vibrations

Author:Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.”

Soul Sound Steps Knowing Mindfulness Giants Vibrations Initiation

Author:Don G. Campbell

“By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.”

Realizing Compassion Practice Essentials Mindfulness And Love Emptiness Patience And Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.”

Ifs Moments Ability Meditation Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.”

Mind Matter States Forget Buddhism Involved Quiet Mindfulness Observation Ecstasy State Of Mind Agony Transient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.”

Mind Moments Universe Perfect Views Existence Attention Path Buddhism Mindfulness Flood Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.”

World Mind Long Order Force Principles Practice Teacher Mindfulness Draws Enlightenment Connected Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.”

Used Buddhism Mindfulness Buddhist Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.”

Mind Ideas Mindfulness Liberation Attachment Bondage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.”

People Moments Practice Letting Go Mindfulness Solemn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.”

Mind Pain Causes Meditation Mindfulness Gains Remove Ecstasy Hooked

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.”

Source: The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure

“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.”

World Feels Moments Pain Energy Meditation Expression Mindfulness Ultimate Unconditional Love Unconditional Equanimity

Author:Shinzen Young

“Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.”

Looks States Action Source Succeed Mindfulness Intention Connected Guides Dimensions Inward Stopping

Author:Dustin Moskovitz

“Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.”

Self Reality Form Mindfulness Labels Contracts Rescue Transcendence Loopholes

Author:Diane Ackerman

“When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.”

Past Future Mindfulness Happenings Holding On Immediacy

Book:Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

Source: Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity

“By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.”

Self Whole Mindfulness Seeking Glorious Petty

Book:Timeless Wisdom: Passages for Meditation from the World's Saints and Sages

Source: Timeless Wisdom: Passages for Meditation from the World's Saints and Sages

“There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.”

Knows Wells Kind Has Beens Problem Body Bigs Turns Next Pay Attention Practice Nice Awareness Mindfulness Cells Pay Attention Showers Next Time Toes Avoiding Baths

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.”

Mind Emotion Benefits Mindfulness Storm Presence Of Mind

Author:Phillip Moffitt

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.”

Needs Kind Conditions Exercise Mindfulness Management All Kinds Recognition Therapy Diets Intervention Programmes Bipolar Schizophrenia Pharmaceutical Diet And Exercise

Author:Stephen Fry

“As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.”

Grows Compassion Flower Mindfulness Spring Blooming Flower

Author:Amit Ray

“When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.”

Ifs Years Children Easy Parent Realizing Practice Missing Mindfulness Careful Being A Parent

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.”

Moments Awareness Mindfulness Judgmental Non Judgmental

Book:Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

Source: Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

“World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”

World Mindfulness

Book:Meditation: Insights and Inspiration

Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration

“Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Real Feelings Hurt Mindfulness Buddhist Awake Being Real

Author:Krista Tippett

“You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.”

Ifs Writing Real Matter Grows Space Ready Becoming Honor Quiet Anxiety Projects Mindfulness Currents Experts Entering Addict Writing Life Mantras Calming Recovering Affirming

Author:Eric Maisel

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”

Helping Home Happiness Conditions Mindfulness Yoga Mindful Living Yoga Practice Buddhist Monk

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.”

People Wells Helping Mindfulness Well Being Helping People Complement

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

Ifs Dream Body Today Energy Practice Meditation Tomorrow Walking Mindfulness Sitting Cells Concentration Today And Tomorrow

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.”

Mind Body Understanding Practice Struggle Keys Mindfulness Connections Weight Empowering Mindful Living

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Mind Looks Persons Home Body Beautiful Suffering Change Emotion Perception Mindfulness Breathe Your Body Unhappy Unkind

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.”

Ifs Want Needs Practice Planets Mindfulness Enlightenment Save The Planet Enlightenment And Love

Author:Nhat Hanh

“When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.”

Way Life Inspirational Looks Different Helping Body Change Sun Meditation Walking Mindfulness Different Ways Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.”

Way Self Happiness Joy Hope Speak Practice Trust Confidence Offers Mindfulness Enlightenment Self Confidence Joy Happiness

Book:For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

Source: For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition

“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.”

Ifs Knows May Energy Know How Meditation Minutes Flower Walking Ten Perception Mindfulness Sitting Anger Twenties Embrace Come Up Following Breathing True Nature Walking Meditation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.”

Ifs Helping Reality Past Suffering Practice Friends Safe Mindfulness Okay Dear Ghost Movie Unreal Dear Friend

Author:Nhat Hanh

“You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.”

Knows Heart Happiness Understanding Healing Mindfulness Concentration Hug Reconciliation

Book:Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

“To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.”

Life Mind Moments Body Meditation Missing Mindfulness Breathing Present Moment Mind And Body Appointments

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.”

Mind Home Body Water Practice Path Return Speech Mindfulness Eating Breathe Cooks Leafs Garbage Toilets Pebbles

Book:Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966

Source: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966

“Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.”

Knows Firsts Energy Meditation Elements Mindfulness Tools Harmony Calm Territory

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“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.”

Happiness Joy Energy Peace Practice Depends Habit Mindfulness Negative Embrace Recognizing Transforming Peace And Happiness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.”

Mean Accepting Mindfulness Conclusion Readiness Drilling

Author:Marion Milner

“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”

Sometimes Achieve Mindfulness Wholeness Brokenness Fragility

Book:Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

Source: Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul

“Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.”

Helping Mindfulness Boundaries Unhappy Revealing

Book:Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Source: Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

“There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.”

Way Mean Different Awareness Mindfulness Different Ways Really Mean

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

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