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“To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.”
― Donald Altman

“To forgive does not mean we condone the misdeeds of another. We can dedicate ourselves to making sure they never happen again. But without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past…. Forgiveness is a way to move on.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“...greet the day gently and with utmost care.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H”
― Donald Altman, Clearing Emotional Clutter: Mindfulness Practices for Letting Go of What's Blocking Your Fulfillment and Transformation

“Shifting our awareness to what is pleasant and beautiful and good is deeply affirming. It taps into the fundamental goodness of life,”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”12”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“There are enough critical voices in this world; you don’t have to be one of them.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Optimism is contagious. It deepens our connection with others, establishes new resources, and brings a sense of hope to all. Optimism strengthens our ability to bounce back from obstacles and acts like a magnet that draws others to us. It is a leadership quality, catalyzing widespread positive changes. In”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote in a letter, “It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters…I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.”22”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“¿qué implica tal cambio de conciencia? Lo que en realidad hace es demostrar la diferencia entre una orientación hacia el resultado y una orientación hacia el proceso.”
― Donald Altman, 50 TÉCNICAS DE MINDFULNESS PARA VENCER LA ANSIEDAD, LA DEPRESIÓN, EL ESTRÉS Y EL DOLOR

“We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Learning to successfully manage work after hours may be one of the great social challenges of twenty-first-century living. As far back as 1922, sociologist William Ogburn created the term culture lag to describe the problems and friction that occur as society catches up to the consequences of new technology. Ogburn believed that it could take up to fifty years to adapt to and manage the changes, and he added, “If the material culture should continue to accumulate and change with increasing rapidity, it would seem that the cultural lags will pile up even more.”16”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you’re grateful.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”8”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected,”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

“Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.”
― Donald Altman

“As a mindfulness student once said to his teacher, “Every time I start to think about how I’m finally in the here and now, I realize the moment has already passed.” The”
― Donald Altman, One-Minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World