"Movement is good for the body. Stillness is……" — Sakyong Mipham

"Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind."

— Sakyong Mipham

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58 Quotes by Sakyong Mipham

Sakyong Mipham has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is…
In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
It is said that if our intention is to help others-even if we are unable to follow it through-we will…
If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress.…
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let…
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and…
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because…
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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