La Petite Fleur Publishing Quotes

“A worthy prayer is a deliberate intention which has been guided by your heart.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“The idea of different countries and nationalities was purely an invention of the human mind handed down from one generation to the next, bringing war and division in its wake. This is what the Buddha meant by "In the sky there is no east or west but people create distinctions out of their minds and then believe them to be true".”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“When we make a decision to honour our inner peace and allow it to blossom, we feel drawn to create peace in our external environment.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“The beauty of mindful-life-breath meditation is that you are not restricted to having to sit in the lotus position to be present. Whether you are on a busy train, driving a car or walking down a crowded high-street, you can easily remind yourself to focus on your breathing. Appreciate the subtle sensation of oxygen flowing in and out of your nostrils.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Needing nothing gives you everything.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“The enlightened question to ask in any relationship is, “what can I give rather than what can I get?”
― christopher dines , Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Ecstasy and bliss must come from within.”
― Christopher Dines, The Mystery of Belief: How to Manifest Your Dreams

“Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Once we stop “searching” for joyful feelings in people and things, no matter what polarity the external world brings us (positive or negative), we can still be aware of the inner peace that resides in our consciousness.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Nothing and no-one can raise our consciousness to a field of pure bliss unless we are open to the timeless dimension operating within us. We can only do this by being present and releasing all negative energy.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Enlightened people and serene landscapes can help to elevate our inner bliss but the awareness must first be realized from within.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“Originally, there were no man-made borders to divide and segregate lands on this beautiful planet.”
― Christopher Dines, Manifest Your Bliss: A Spiritual Guide to Inner Peace

“We are essentially pure consciousness, which perceives the material universe through our own awareness.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Most human beings wish to be happy and healthy. This universal realization is painfully obvious and yet is overlooked due to its simplicity. We all naturally desire to feel free on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. We wish to feel joyful, abundant, serene and blissful. This desire is ultimately grounded in a higher human nature.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“The evidence of grave emotional and mental suffering is clear to see in the growing number of mental health units, “re-habs” and overflowing psychiatric wards as people try to find relief in compulsive drinking, drug abuse, gambling, over-eating, under-eating, chasing prestige, hoarding money, “retail therapy” and over-indulging in pornography and sex.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is that of being able to live with one another in a peaceful and civilized way. We all have our individual uniqueness and perceptions of how we believe the world ought to function. This creates conflict unless there is a deeper realization in the collective consciousness and an understanding that most human desires desecrate the beauty of the nowness of life.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Anxiety and stress-related mental dysfunction is the plague of modern-day society. Millions of people are tormented by anxious thinking and the consequent distress this brings, irrespective of whether they live in a mansion or a bed-sit or whether they earn millions or are living on the breadline. This would indicate that external circumstances cannot prevent or cause pathological anxiety or free people from negative emotions.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“The most efficient way to transcend unsettling thoughts is through the life breath. When we bring our full attention to the life breath, it becomes a gateway to access a deeper and higher level of awareness.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“The key to accessing love, joy, peace and compassion is to be free from the dominant state of compulsive thinking. Once we are able to flow into mindfulness and still our thoughts, happiness manifests.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Through mindfully practising love and compassion we are able to heal our hearts and minds from our hurt and suffering, thus bringing harmony into this world. The more we are open to love, the easier it is to share kindness with all living creatures.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Remember that if you do not put your own well-being first you cannot love yourself and thus, you cannot truly love and be compassionate towards others.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“When we truly forgive in our hearts, not only do we purify ourselves from the heavy burdens of negative karma but we begin to create a new space for positive energy to enter this world. When we forgive, we are no longer chained to the negative actions we have created in the past.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“It will be increasingly difficult to be of maximum service to the world if we cannot or will not be open-minded and understanding towards people who might “appear” to be different from ourselves. When we can love someone who is not like us, we are living mindfully.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“. Inspiration originally meant “being in spirit”, indicating that when we are inspired we are connected to a higher domain of pure awareness and pure consciousness. True inspiration can only flow through us when we are anchored in the present moment.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Mindfulness does not erase negative memories; it 'transcends' them giving us back our deepest power which resides in our hearts.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Unhappiness is a warped and distorted perception of reality. When a man says he is unhappy with his life and gives a written list of why he is dissatisfied, he has given a frank account of the state of his mind. If his mind is neglected and starved from stillness of thought, the nature of his thinking will reflect turbulence, anxiety and a lack of fulfilment.
However, when he is able to transcend thought, by being the observer (the witness) of his thinking and can take control of his mind, tranquility begins to flow through him. He is no longer a slave to his mental concepts, distinctions and limiting beliefs.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“Let go of fighting your habits. Simply be present and observe their patterns. This will help you to break free until the negative patterns eventually subside.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life

“When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals