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Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.
Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .
Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.
Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.
When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.
Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.
The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.
Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.
In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.
Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.
There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.
One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.
Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.
The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.