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π§ Mindfulness
βDo not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.β
β Rumi
βMindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. It is about being where you are.β
β Sharon Salzberg
βWhat we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.β
β Gautama Buddha
βDrink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves β slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.β
β Unknown
βThe whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.β
β Dipa Ma
βThe only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.β
β Buddha
βMan is born free, but is everywhere in chains.β
β Jean-Jacques Rousseau
βOne who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.β
β Lao Tzu
βLife is always in the present tense.β
β Charlotte Joko Beck
βTo be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).β
β George Berkeley
βI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.β
β Thomas A. Edison
βIf you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.β
β Ajahn Chah
βHe who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.β
β Plato
βThere is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.β
β Socrates
βMindfulness is the quality of mind that notices what is present without judgment, without interference.β
β Joseph Goldstein
βThis above all; to thine own self be true.β
β William Shakespeare
βThe weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βThe aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.β
β Oscar Wilde
βTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.β
β Leo Tolstoy
βRule your mind or it will rule you.β
β Horace
βExperience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.β
β Osho
βThe journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.β
βDo not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.β
βIf you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it.β
β Dogen Zenji
βI wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.β
β Hafiz
βDream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.β
β Goethe
βThe ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.β
β Jiddu Krishnamurti
βIt's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.β
β Epictetus
βEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.β
β Confucius
βThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.β
βTo the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.β
β Laozi
βI would rather die of passion than of boredom.β
β Vincent Van Gogh
βThe sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing.β
β Sadhguru
βTo be or not to be, that is the question.β
βThe quieter you become, the more you can hear.β
β Ram Dass
βI can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.β
β Spinoza
βHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.β
β Immanuel Kant
βThe key to happiness is the reduction of desires.β
β Amma
βThe life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.β
β Thomas Hobbes
βIf you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.β
βYou can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.β
βTo find yourself, think for yourself.β
βRealize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.β
β Eckhart Tolle
βWhere would I possibly find enough leather with which to cover the surface of the earth? But wearing leather on the soles of my feet is equivalent to covering the earth with it.β
β Shantideva
βThe mind is everything. What you think you become.β
βGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βPeople look for retreats for themselves in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. But nowhere can a person retreat more peacefully than into their own soul.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.β
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.β
β Virginia Woolf
βKnow thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.β
βSleep is the best meditation.β
β Dalai Lama
βThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.β
β Tara Brach
βTo be great is to be misunderstood.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βStep into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.β
β Mooji
βWhat doesn't kill me makes me stronger.β
βDoubt is the origin of wisdom.β
β Rene Descartes
βNo man is free who is not master of himself.β
βInstructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.β
β Mary Oliver
βRemember, it is being aware of thoughts, not getting rid of them, that is the point.β
β Andy Puddicombe
βThe meaning of life is to give life meaning.β
β Viktor E. Frankl
βOne cannot step twice in the same river.β
β Heraclitus
βMeditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.β
β Jack Kornfield
βA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.β
βYou are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.β
β Pema Chodron
βLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.β
β George Washington
βQuiet the mind, and the soul will speak.β
β Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
βThe only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.β
βThe point of the spiritual path is not to avoid all pain. It is to learn how to deal with pain and difficult situations skillfully.β
β Lama Surya Das
βLife is always right here, right now. It is not somewhere else.β
βHappiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.β
β Matthieu Ricard
βIn the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.β
βHe who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.β
β Michel de Montaigne
βThe world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.β
β W.B. Yeats
βEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.β
βGod is dead.β
βI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.β
β Voltaire
βChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.β
β John F. Kennedy
βThere is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.β
βEntities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.β
β William of Ockham
βThe only true failure is not to try.β
β George Clooney
βThe Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.β
β Seng-Tsan
βHe who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.β
β Michel De Montaigne
βThe only thing constant in life is change.β
βWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.β
β Seneca
βMindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.β
β Bhante Gunaratana
βEnlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.β
β Adyashanti
βWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.β
βIn the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.β
β Shunryu Suzuki
βMuddy water, let stand, becomes clear.β
βThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βThe obstacle is the path.β
β Zen Proverb
βBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.β
βThe only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate.β
β Leibniz
βThe power of mindful awareness to transform our experience of suffering into wisdom is one of the great discoveries of the contemplative tradition.β
β Nyanaponika Thera
βTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.β
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βDrink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.β
βThe purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present.β
β Sogyal Rinpoche
βThe purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.β
β Robert Byrne
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.β
β Plutarch
βLife isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.β
β George Bernard Shaw
βWherever you go, there you are.β
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βThe goal of meditation is not to control your thoughts, it is to stop letting them control you.β
β Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
βA man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.β
βDon't count the days, make the days count.β
β Muhammad Ali
βThe only thing permanent in life is change.β
βIf you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.β
β Amit Ray
βThe more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.β
βAct only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.β
βYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.β
βSilence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.β
βI am therefore I think.β
β Ayn Rand
βWe are what we repeatedly do. Meditation is therefore not an act but a habit.β
β Sakyong Mipham
βHappiness is a state of mind.β
β Aristotle
βEnlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.β
βCalmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.β
β James Allen
βTime is the most valuable thing a man can spend.β
β Theophrastus
βThis is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.β
β Alan Watts
βSmile, breathe, and go slowly.β
βIf you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.β
βThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.β
β William James
βWe are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.β
βPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.β
β Ludwig Wittgenstein
βIt is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.β
βThe best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.β
β H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
βI am that I am.β
β Baruch Spinoza
βNormality is a paved road: Itβs comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βHappiness is the highest good.β
βIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.β
βThe soul that moves in the world of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony... finds rest in quietness.β
β Vyasa
βThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.β
βEvery morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live.β
βMan is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.β
βThere is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.β
βHe who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errorsβ
β Martin Heidegger
βThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.β
βIn the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.β
β Deepak Chopra
βThe things you think about determine the quality of your mind.β
βThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.β
βWhat does not kill me makes me stronger.β
βWhat is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.β
β Anne Frank
βIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.β
β Meister Eckhart
βIn the end, we only regret the chances we didnβt take.β
β Lewis Carroll
βThe only journey is the one within.β
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βWe do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.β
β AnaΓ―s Nin
βDo not just do something, sit there.β
β Sylvia Boorstein
βIt's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βLife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.β
βThe rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.β
β Ryokan
βKnow thyself.β
β Thales of Miletus
βOur life is what our thoughts make it.β
βMindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.β
βI can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.β
β Jimmy Dean
βIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.β
βYou might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peace. This of course would be an attachment to stillness.β
βThe only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.β
β Charles Kingsleigh
βThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.β
β SΓΈren Kierkegaard
βThe power of imagination makes us infinite.β
β John Muir
βEven while they teach, men learn.β
β Seneca the Younger
βMan is the measure of all things.β
β Protagoras
βThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.β
β Edmund Burke
βIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.β
βMindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.β
β Jan Chozen Bays
βBefore enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.β
βFlow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.β
β Zhuangzi
βMan is by nature a political animal.β
βKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.β
βTo study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.β
βWhat a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am.β
βThe wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.β
β Chuang Tzu
βSilence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.β
β Francis Bacon
βThe entire universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.β
β S.N. Goenka
βFreedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.β
βLife must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.β
βI have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.β
β Mark Twain
βHe who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.β
βWatch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.β
β Solomon
βFeelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.β
βBe content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.β
βWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.β
βWhen walking, walk. When eating, eat.β
βWe are what we repeatedly do.β
βMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.β
βThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.β
βLife can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.β
β Soren Kierkegaard
βThe greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.β
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βDo every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.β
βThere is no great genius without some touch of madness.β
βWhereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.β
βTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.β
βThe mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.β
β John Milton
βNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.β
βI would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.β
β Emiliano Zapata
βWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.β
βMindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.β
βIn order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.β
β Coco Chanel
βOur lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.β
β F. Scott Fitzgerald
βIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.β
βIt is never too late to be what you might have been.β
β George Eliot
βNo man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.β
β John Locke
βHappiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.β
β Albus Dumbledore
βI can resist anything except temptation.β
βI was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.β
β Edgar Allan Poe
βWe live in the best of all possible worlds.β
β Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
βWhat we think, we become.β
βOne cannot step twice into the same river.β
βYour living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.β
βThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.β
βThe best revenge is massive success.β
β Frank Sinatra
βTo be is to be perceived.β
βTo do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.β
β John Stuart Mill
βSuffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.β
β Patanjali
βVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.β
βLiberty consists in doing what one desires.β
βGive me liberty, or give me death.β
β Patrick Henry
βAll that we are is the result of what we have thought.β
βAlthough we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite.β
βThe obstacle is the way.β
βThe future depends on what you do today.β
βThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.β
βThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.β
β Franklin D. Roosevelt
βMan is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.β
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.β
βWhat you seek is seeking you.β
βThe affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.β
β Milarepa
βAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.β
β Simone Weil
βWhen you plant lettuce and it does not grow well, you do not blame the lettuce.β
βMan is by nature a social animal.β
βIt does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.β
βThere is no great genius without a mixture of madness.β
βBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.β
βThe mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.β
βLife is what we make it, always has been, always will be.β
β Grandma Moses
βI cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.β
βLeisure is the mother of philosophy.β
βThe secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.β
β Dan Millman
βThe secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.β
βIt is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.β
β Emile Zola
βThe greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.β
β Jeremy Bentham
βNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.β
βWhat we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.β
βPeace comes from within. Do not seek it without.β
βEach morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.β
βAll of humanitys problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone.β
β Blaise Pascal
βI donβt know why we are here, but Iβm pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.β
βIts being here now that is important. There is no past and there is no future.β
β George Harrison
βWhat is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.β
βLife must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.β
βTrue happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.β
β Omar Khayyam
βThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.β
βThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.β
β Samuel Johnson
βWho has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
βThe brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.β
β Rick Hanson
βHe who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.β
βIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.β
β RenΓ© Descartes
βThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.β
βA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.β
β Charles Darwin
βIf you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace.β
βThe root of suffering is attachment.β
βWhen walking walk. When eating eat.β
βIf the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is β infinite.β
β William Blake
βWe suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.β
βThe only constant in life is change.β
βThe present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.β
βTo be is to do.β
βWhat you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.β
βIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.β
βIt is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.β
βLife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.β
βIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.β
βMeditation is not about trying to throw yourself away and become something better. It is about befriending who you are already.β
β Chogyam Trungpa
βEach moment is all being, is the whole world. Anything that exists is yourself.β
β Suzuki Roshi
βIn mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.β
β Chade-Meng Tan
βYour time is limited, so do not waste it living someone elses life.β
β Steve Jobs
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