Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Contextual awareness represents a continuum of behaviors, which illustrates how and why groups of people unite or divide among cultures.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Living in the present moment or commonly know as Mindfulness is being aware and conscious of your surroundings. From awareness, we evolve… — Suresh Devnani Copy Share Image
“Through practice we can strengthen our capacity to incorporate mindfulness into our daily lives until it becomes a habit of mind (Roeser… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“Nobody can really see into the future. So see into the present. Appreciate what is in front of you right now. We… — David Cuschieri Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This deeper gratitude — gratitude for what was constant when it was not felt — is one of the most spiritually mature… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“I would like to ofer some exercises that can help us use the Five Precepts to cultivate and strengthen mindfulness. It is… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“It is also important to understand that, even though you have been taught to believe that your mind is in charge of… — Mary O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
“When we overlook them, life can start to feel like a series of disjointed highlights rather than a cloth spun with continuous… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
“Simple things. We want to be able to appreciate a beautiful day. We long for that pulse-pounding joy of looking across a… — Jim Brickman Copy Share Image
“When the weeks have built up with frustration and immense stress and one of your co-workers, a manager or an employee triggers… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is developing an awareness of the thoughts and feelings that we move through without getting drawn into the meanings or taking… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
“A positive attitude eventually begets positive experiences. Choose to be happy. Decide you are well or happy instead of unwell or unhappy,… — James K. Papp Copy Share Image
“Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for… — Janet Gallagher Nestor Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Play is primal. It’s not a frivolous pastime—it’s a radical act of reclaiming joy and creativity in a world that often feels… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“hanging on intense self-criticisms, and being thoroughly identified with them, can certainly be detrimental to our well-being. Allowing ourselves to be imperfect,… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained… — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“We don't practice hospitality to point other people to ourselves, our church, or even our beliefs. We practice hospitality to point people… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
“Educators and mindfulness instructors of the Mindfulness in Schools Project developed a curriculum called “.b” (pronounced “dot bee”), which stands for “Stop,… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme… — John Blofeld Copy Share Image
“Our cultural lens is so much a part of us that we are not even aware of how obvious it is to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen… — Desmond Biddulph Copy Share Image
“The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility.” — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
