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“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Developing Interfere Our Thoughts Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

Ifs Trying Action Our Lives Buddhism Activity Perception Mindfulness Direct Our Actions Sense Perception

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”

Inspirational Use Would Be Hours Worry Wise Our Lives Mindfulness Inevitable Our Family Present Moment Cherish Live In The Moment Being Wise Insperational Mindful Living

Author:Maya Angelou

“We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.”

Art Suffering Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Areas

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.”

Suffering Struggle Forever Our Lives Achieve Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Speed Intense Anxious Aggression Competing Possessing Preoccupation Grasping Swirls

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"”

Ifs Thinking Life Giving Dies Our Lives Alive Mindfulness Conscious Shoulders Permission Looking Back Assured Shaking Bewilderment Muttering

Author:Stephen Levine

“The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.”

Thinking Way Life Running Our Lives Influence Masters Thousand Mindfulness Our Thoughts Groove

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“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

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

Past Our Lives Awareness Anxiety Mindfulness Guilt Over The Past

Author:Russell Targ

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

Thinking Mind Motivational Life Is Our Lives Military Mindfulness Buddhist Oxen

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us to powerfully transform our lives for the better. A pioneering, beautifully-written book.”

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Author:Dean Ornish

“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.”

Moments Powerful Healing Our Lives Mindfulness Gains Resources Transformation Insight Access Awake Exquisite Mindful Living Vividness

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.”

Stories Our Lives Prove Mindfulness Destructive Life Story

Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Mind Lying Teach Practice Our Lives Mindfulness Sitting Standing Focused Arise Conquer Practise Lying Down Limited Time

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.”