Thich Nhat Hanh quotes on mindfulness
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
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“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Stepping into Freedom: Rules of Monastic Practice for Novices
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
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“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”
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“My actions are my only true belongings.”
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“Mindfulness of breathing can help us relax and bring peace to our body. We take care of our body first. We can take care of our mind later.”
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“Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects of life.”
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“Desirelessness is the basic condition that makes possible the feelings of joy, peace and ease that come with living a simple life.”
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“Compassionate listening and loving speech are doors that can help us out of even the most difficult situations.”
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“Stillness is the foundation of understanding and insight. Stillness is strength.”
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Sharon Salzberg quotes on mindfulness
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.”
― Sharon Salzberg,
“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences and push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg,
“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”
― Sharon Salzberg. Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love”
― Sharon Salzberg. Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment and thus true love.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Sarah Shaw quotes on mindfulness
“When we study the history of the word mindfulness, we see it carries many dimensions that seem to have been lost in modern deployment of the word, including memory, non-attachment, attentive friendliness, and equanimity.”
― Sarah Shaw, Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means
“Mindfulness here is simple observation of what is happening, inside one’s own body and mind, in the world around, and in the interplay between the two.”
― Sarah Shaw, Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means
“Buddhist usage of the term mindfulness always connotes a sense of remembering either certain skilful states achieved in the past or of the ability to cultivate skilful states in the future.”
― Sarah Shaw, Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means
“Mindfulness is also the recognition of unwholesome states as threatening to our well-being and the wisdom and effort to rectify these.”
― Sarah Shaw, Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means
“[…] Equanimity […] is not seen as the denial of feeling but rather an imperturbability untroubled by hankerings or rejection after events: an image that is sometimes given to illustrate this is of drops of water falling off a lotus leaf.”
― Sarah Shaw, Mindfulness: Where It Comes From And What It Means
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