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> [“As in other exercises my father taught me, the way to begin is to sit up straight, breathe normally, and gradually allow your mind to relax. “With your mind at rest,” he instructed those of us in his little teaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/as-in-other-exercises-my-father-taught-me-the-way-to-begin-is-to-sit/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

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## More by Yongey Mingyur

> [“As in other exercises my father taught me, the way to begin is to sit up straight, breathe normally, and gradually allow your mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/as-in-other-exercises-my-father-taught-me-the-way-to-begin-is-to-sit/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

> [“As my father explained after we’d finished, the point of the exercise was to recognize that there really is no difference between the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/as-my-father-explained-after-we-d-finished-the-point-of-the-exercise/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

> [“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/if-you-re-determined-to-think-of-yourself-as-limited-fearful/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

> [“Our thoughts, emotions, and sensations are like waves rising and falling in an endless ocean of infinite possibility. The problem is that we've become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/our-thoughts-emotions-and-sensations-are-like-waves-rising-and/)

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> [“You can enjoy your perceptions without actively engaging them, looking at them in the same way you’d look at the objects you’d experience in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/you-can-enjoy-your-perceptions-without-actively-engaging-them-looking/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

> [“In so doing, we regain the innocent perspective most of us knew as children. Our hearts open up to others, like flowers blossoming. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/in-so-doing-we-regain-the-innocent-perspective-most-of-us-knew-as/)

[Yongey Mingyur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yongey-mingyur/)

> [“After a few years of asking some very pointed questions in public teachings and in private counseling sessions, I began to see that when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/after-a-few-years-of-asking-some-very-pointed-questions-in-public/)

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> [“As we contemplate the enormous variety of factors that must come together to produce a specific sense of self, our attachment to this “I”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/as-we-contemplate-the-enormous-variety-of-factors-that-must-come/)

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> [“The habit of thinking that things exist “out there” in the world or “in here” is hard to give up, though. It means letting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yongey-mingyur/the-habit-of-thinking-that-things-exist-out-there-in-the-world-or-in/)

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