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

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

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

“The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.”

Knows Doe Emotion Quality Mindfulness Happenings Sensations Clinging Condemning

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.”

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Author:Ayya Khema

“Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.”

Mean Spirit Attention Mindfulness Happenings Pay Attention Generous Cultivating Generous Spirit

Book:The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live

Source: The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live

“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.”

“The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.”

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Book:Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation

Source: Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation

“Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.”

Moments Able My Own Right Now Mindfulness Happenings Response My Own Life Lives Of Others Choose Wisely Attentiveness

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.”

Mean Doe Moments Process Letting Go Mindfulness Happenings Oneself Pushing Allowing Hanging On

Book:The Heart of the Buddha

Source: The Heart of the Buddha

“Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.”

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Book:How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

Source: How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.”