“The windmill doesn’t try to control the wind or demand that it blow in another direction. It simply surrenders to the wind,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Zen is a present state of mind where one honors the task they are partaking of, even if the task is sitting… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
It is because of that balanced relationship to the moment that mindfulness serves as the platform for insight... if we feel an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
“Our enemy within are our Core Negative Beliefs. Negative beliefs hide from the Consciousness and they get exposed by the Magic of… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
“As much as I can, I avoid using the word "spiritual" altogether. I find it neither useful nor necessary nor appropriate in… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“At a Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast, two of my friends and I were standing in a circle talking. A stranger approached,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When our mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is… — Shamash Alidina Copy Share Image
“Seeing a problem clearly does not prevent you from taking action, he explained. Acceptance is not passivity. Sometimes we are justifiably displeased.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“When we practice a yoga posture designed to challenge our balance, the use of a gazing point or drishti is a most… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“To be self-compassionate is not to be self-indulgent or self-centred. A major component of self-compassion is to be kind to yourself. Treat… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“Cooking gives you the opportunity to meet the things you eat. You can touch each carrot or olive and get to know… — Gary Thorp Copy Share Image
“The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“You may think you see the world clearly—that the people in your life and even those you have never met are easily… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“If at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“The miracle of yoga is not that we get to reshape the external world—to bend the laws of time and space. The… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that “this is it” Right now is my… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness works with continuous awareness of body, breath; feelings, thoughts, intentions. Our state of mind, our positive or negative attitude towards the… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
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