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“We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.”

Needs Enough Buddhism Return Safe Mindfulness Refuge

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an emotion, for example, and struggle against it right away, there is not going to be a lot of learning going on. In the same way, if we are swamped by that emotion, overcome by it, there won't be enough space for there to be learning or insight.”

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Author:Sharon Salzberg

“It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.”

Mind Enough Ocean Mindfulness Wave Gentle Calmness

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.”

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Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life

“Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.”

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Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.”

Ifs Enough Mindfulness Sitting Breaths Opening Again And Again Few Words

Author:David Whyte