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“The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.”

Moments Literature Doors Confidence Comfort Mindfulness Blessed Finals Terror Opening Privacy Closing Joyous

Author:Andy Rooney

“We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.”

Moments Night Suffering Buddhism Eternal Mindfulness Opening Day And Night Unfolding Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”

Moments Acceptance Mindfulness Complicated Opening Buddhist Pleasant Present Moment Balanced Clinging Rejecting Mindful Living

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.”

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Author:David Richo

“Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.”

Way Moments Meditation Letting Go Judgment Mindfulness Expectations Strategy Ancient Opening Attachment Entitlement Judgment Of Others

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“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