We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things. We need to realise that the Earth is not just our environment. The Earth is not something outside of us. Breathing with mindfulness and contemplating your body, you realise that you are the Earth. You realise that your consciousness is also th…
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Quotes tagged ‘mindfulness’
Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
Commitment is very rewarding when it is practiced with integrity, mindfulness, and skillfulness.
How can we mindfully navigate this life? Can we foster a sense of interconnection with all life on this earth?
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of consciousness grows strong.
Sitting mindfully with our sorrows and fears, or with those of another, is an act of courage. It is not easy.
Being alert and curious about your fear allows it to become your teacher.
The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.
For the mind to become settled in the present moment, in the midst of so much change, we must develop concentration.
When we breathe in and we know we're breathing in, that's mindfulness.
Enlightenment is growing all the time. It is not something that happens once and is then complete.
Practice of mindfulness is like a boat and by practicing mindfulness you offer yourself a boat and you will not sink in a river of suffering.
No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.
Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the…
People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.
Mindfulness requires retraining your brain to stay out of the mental clutter from the future and focus instead on the present moment. When you are mindful, you no longer attach to your thoughts. You are simply present in whatever you happen to be doing.
The truth leads to self-mastery, to a life that’s very easy; our distortion of the truth often leads to needless conflict and human suffering. Awareness makes all the difference.
Within your mind you have access to the tools, ideas, attitudes, and knowledge that have the potential to create unlimited abundance.
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.