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#1

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

tags: mindfulness, miracles

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#2

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”
― Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

tags: awakening, buddhism, mindfulness

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#3

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

tags: mindfulness, suicide

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#4

“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: happiness, mindfulness, moment

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#5

“In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
― Jack Kornfield

tags: inspirational, mindfulness

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#6

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

tags: buddhism, health, inspiration, inspirational, mindfulness, suffering

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#7

“Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.”
― Raji Lukkoor

tags: inspirational, meditation, mindfulness

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#8

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: courage, mindfulness, pain, self-assessment, self-awareness, truth

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#9

“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.

When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.

It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable.”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

tags: mindfulness

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#10

“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”
― James Baraz

tags: mindfulness

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#11

“One reason the concept of becoming better can scare us is that it requires us to step out of a place that we recognize and have possibly grown comfortable with.”
― Sara Milne Rowe, The SHED Method: The new mind management technique for achieving confidence, calm and success

tags: be-better, choices-and-consequences, inspirational, leadership, life-lessons, life-quotes, mindfulness, motivational-quotes, self-help, success-quotes

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#12

“Read books by people you disagree with. Listen to others who think differently from you. Watch programming you wouldn't normally watch. Expand your mind and views of the world. As right as you think you are about your own beliefs and experiences, others feel the same way about their own. You'll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong.”
― Emily Maroutian

tags: education, mindfulness, philosophy, tolerance

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#13

“You actions are your only true belongings.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

tags: buddhism, buisness, finance, mindfulness

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#14

“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

tags: buddhism, compassion, insight, karma, meditation, mindfulness

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#15

“Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.”
― Sylvia Boorstein, Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein – A Down-to-Earth Guide to Meditation and Being for Calm, Clarity, and Joy

tags: control, meditation, mindfulness, peace

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#16

“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if were found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay it's too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts. We thrust it out of sight because it distresses us, and if we find it enjoyable, we are sorry to see it slip away. We try to give it the support of the future, and think how we are going to arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching. (Page 9)”
― Blaise Pascal, Great Ideas Human Happiness

tags: being-present, future, grounded, mindfulness, past, present, unhappiness

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#17

“We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.”
― Allan Lokos, Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

tags: buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, thinking

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#18

“. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

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#19

“Non-forgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or condition - past, present or future - that your mind refuses to accept. Yes, there can be non-forgiveness even with regard to the future. This is the mind's refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the future is ultimately beyond its control. Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life - to allow life to live through you.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: mindfulness

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#20

“Patience is an action and a skill to be cultivated. It actually solves more problems than most other actions.”
― John Bruna, The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

tags: mindfulness, patience, problem-solving

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#21

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: buddhism, dharma, mindfulness

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#22

“Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?

No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: mindfulness, worry

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#23

“How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: clarity, dead-body, eating, food, meat, mindfulness, reality, reductive-analysis

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#24

“Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: healthy-mind, love-yourself, mental-health, mindfulness, relationships, self-love, thinking, thoughts

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#25

“It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.”
― H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia

tags: mindfulness, progress, teamwork

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#26

“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: agape-love, anti-racism, antiracism, belief-in-nonviolence, children-victims-of-war, civility, coexistence, compassion-heals-lives, compassion-love, compassion-wisdom, coping-with-change, courage-to-love, discourse-on-a-better-world, diversity, ending-terrorism, ending-war, enemy-quotes, faith-in-humanity, faith-in-love, fear-of-love, finding-strength-in-love, global-peace-movement, global-village, good-versus-evil, hate, hate-versus-love, higher-consciousness, hope-for-humanity, human-nature, human-rights-day, ideas, interfaith-dialogue, international-community, jihadism-and-love, jihadists-and-love, living-without-fear, love, love-and-jihad, making-a-difference, mindfulness, multiculturalism, multiculturalismo, national-history-day, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, peacism, philosophy-of-life, police-culture, police-reform, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, quote-of-the-day, quotes-for-the-new-year, race-relations, radical-grace, spiritual-philosophy, sustainbale-humanity, terrorism, trusting-love, unconditional-love, wisdom-quotes, xenophobia

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#27

“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: buddhism, meditation, mindful, mindfulness, stillness, the-future, the-past, the-power-of-now, the-present, the-present-moment

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#28

“If I am a better person, my environment will improve. Understanding that provides both a sense of responsibility and profound purpose.”
― Freequill

tags: community, compassion, environment, improve, love, mindfulness, purpose, responsibility, understanding

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#29

“It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.”
― Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change

tags: acceptance, anxiety, buddhism, compassion, consciousness, depression, mental-health, mindfulness, psyhology, self-help

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#30

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: gratitude, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kindness, life, life-and-living, life-quotes, living-life, mindful, mindfulness, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, truth

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