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“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you are not threatened by anything. You have room to dance in the space, and this makes it a creative situation. The space is open to you.”

Mean Doe Art Space Rooms Situation Creative Mindfulness Creating Works Of Art Threatened Doing You

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

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

“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

“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

“Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.”

Needs Mean Kindness Mindfulness Bases Judgmental Loving Kindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think life goes really quickly and it's very easy to be tuned out, and not be present. That is what I've learned in my parenting experience, and I continue to be mindful of it.”

Thinking Trying Mean Different Easy Parent Challenges Mindfulness Good Parent

Author:Matt Ross

“Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.”

Mean Decision Attention Mindfulness Tweet Making Decisions Blackberries Deploying

Author:Howard Rheingold

“To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Stills Ideas Moments Past Lost Worry Plans Objects Regret Mindfulness Insight Buddhist Concentration Present Moment Grounded Inquiry Here And Now

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”

Life Mean Moments Practice Meditation Awareness Right Now Mindfulness Intention Commit Calmness Orientation Inviting Equanimity Interfaces Meditation Mindfulness

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

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

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”

Mind Mean Use Body Consciousness Mindfulness Breaths Your Body Bridges

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”

Way Life Mean Moments Pay Attention Knowing Mindfulness Best Way Pay Attention Awake Capture Mindful Living Meditation Mindfulness

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

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

“Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.”

Should Mind Mean States Done Moving Consciousness Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Buddhist State Of Mind Sleepy

Book:The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha

Source: The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha

“Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.”

Mind Mean Doe Different Wisdom Suffering Understanding Information Buddhism Perception Mindfulness Quantity Our Thoughts Penetrate

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.”

Life Mean Spiritual Mindfulness Spiritual Life Attainment Begin Again

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.”

Mean Body Reality Awareness Mindfulness Ultimate Defined Incessant Vanishing Ultimate Reality

Book:Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

Source: Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

“Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.”

Mean Moments Process Pay Attention Our Lives Awareness Mindfulness Capacity Pay Attention Present Moment Unfolding Judgmental Sustaining Refining Non Judgmental

Book:Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

“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.”

Knows Mind Mean States Moments Suffering Courses Emotion Activity Mindfulness Happenings Dues Meaningful Motive State Of Mind Discourse Be Here Now Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Ayya Khema

“Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.”

Mean Moments Helping Pieces Cutting Mindfulness Destruction Woods Strokes Fragments Unwanted Latent Defilement

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311

“Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.”

Ifs Way Mean Spiritual Seeing Mindfulness Individuality Dishes Wholeness Washing Totality Interconnectedness

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

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

“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”

Mean Knowing Mindfulness Awake Mindful Living Wherever You Are Meditation Mindfulness

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

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

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

Way Mean Moments Purpose Attention Particular Mindfulness Pay Attention Present Moment Mindful Living Meditation Mindfulness

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

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

“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”

Love Mean Today Asks Natural Knowing Dying Mindfulness Inevitable Crucible

Author:Joan Halifax

“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

“If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.”

Ifs World Mean Persons Reality Artist Energy Views Source Mindfulness Universal New World Traits Rooted Neurotic Pouring Lunatic World View Old World New Energy

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.”

Feels Kind Mean Sometimes Light Happens Asks Vision Path Promise Mindfulness Devil Angel Breaths Boring Silly Things Happen

Book:The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

Source: The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

“Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

Needs Mean Hard Shows Feelings Asks Conversation Mindfulness Vulnerable Daring Daring Greatly

Author:Brené Brown

“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

“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. 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 they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.”