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“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

“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

“The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.”

“From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.”

People Ifs May Earth Together Wish Enjoy Walks Drink Mindfulness Peaceful Tea Relax Retreat Being Together

Book:Being Peace

Source: Being Peace

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”

Ifs Feels May Said Deals Mindfulness Guilt Anxious

Book:psychotherapy east and west

Source: psychotherapy east and west

“Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

Looks May Moments Past Inspiring Drink Pure Mindfulness Nectar

Author:Rumi

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

“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

“Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.”

May Reading Hours Prayer Meditation Mindfulness Scripture Formal One Hour Reciting

Book:The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.”

Should May Desire Emotion Ready Pride Mindfulness Threat Painful Appropriate Antidote

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.”

Ifs Men Mind May Reality Eye Remember Beauty Virtue Mindfulness Mortals Immortal Communion Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.”

May Persons Degrees Mindfulness Highest Contemplation

Author:Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.”

“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.”

“By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.”

Mind May Heaven Mindfulness Insight Examining

Author:Mencius

“I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.”

“When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them. As they have come, so will they go, by themselves. All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself, or rather, of one's mind.”

Mind May Matter Watches Awareness Quiet Mindfulness Oneself Surface

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj