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  • Mindfulness Quote #1

    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

  • Mindfulness Quote #2

    All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female goldfinch suddenly hove into view. She lighted weightlessly on the head of a bankside purple thistle and began emptying the seedcase, sowing the air with down.

    The lighted frame of my window filled. The down rose and spread in all directions, wafting over the dam’s waterfall and wavering between the tulip trunks and into the meadow. It vaulted towards the orchard in a puff; it hovered over the ripening pawpaw fruit and staggered up the steep faced terrace. It jerked, floated, rolled, veered, swayed. The thistle down faltered down toward the cottage and gusted clear to the woods; it rose and entered the shaggy arms of pecans. At last it strayed like snow, blind and sweet, into the pool of the creek upstream, and into the race of the creek over rocks down. It shuddered onto the tips of growing grasses, where it poised, light, still wracked by errant quivers. I was holding my breath. Is this where we live, I thought, in this place in this moment, with the air so light and wild?

    The same fixity that collapses stars and drives the mantis to devour her mate eased these creatures together before my eyes: the thick adept bill of the goldfinch, and the feathery coded down. How could anything be amiss? If I myself were lighter and frayed, I could ride these small winds, too, taking my chances, for the pleasure of being so purely played.

    The thistle is part of Adam’s curse. “Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee.” A terrible curse: But does the goldfinch eat thorny sorrow with the thistle or do I? If this furling air is fallen, then the fall was happy indeed. If this creekside garden is sorrow, then I seek martyrdom.

    I was weightless; my bones were taut skins blown with buoyant gas; it seemed that if I inhaled too deeply, my shoulders and head would waft off. Alleluia.

    Annie Dillard

  • Mindfulness Quote #3

    All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

    Sharon Salzberg

  • Mindfulness Quote #4

    All great people had critics but they stay believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisation of their dreams.

    Lailah Gifty Akita

  • Mindfulness Quote #5

    All the tough lessons in life are meant for negative ending to positive beginning. Like fall to spring. During such time nature warn us to alter everything in our life including mind. Such transformation are vital and essential. If we don't alter nature create force of destruction.

    Aditya Ajmera

  • Mindfulness Quote #6

    Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a poison that will only lead to negative actions and will do nothing to reduce suffering.

    Desmond Biddulph

  • Mindfulness Quote #7

    Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

    Matt BroadwayHorner

  • Mindfulness Quote #8

    Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

    Peter Matthiessen

  • Mindfulness Quote #9

    An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Creek as an anchor-hold. It holds me at anchor to the rock bottom of the creek itself and keeps me steadied in the current, as a sea anchor does, facing the stream of light pouring down. It’s a good place to live; there’s a lot to think about. The creeks are an active mystery, fresh every minute. Theirs is the mystery of the continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection. The mountains are a passive mystery, the oldest of them all. Theirs is the simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.

    Annie Dillard

  • Mindfulness Quote #10

    An open beginner's mind is a powerful tool for developing patience.

    Allan Lokos

  • Mindfulness Quote #11

    An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

    Soke Behzad Ahmadi

  • Mindfulness Quote #12

    And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved.

    What else is going on right this minute while ground water creeps under my feet? The galaxy is careening in a slow, muffled widening. If a million solar systems are born every hour, then surely hundreds burst into being as I shift my weight to the other elbow. The sun’s surface is now exploding; other stars implode and vanish, heavy and black, out of sight. Meteorites are arcing to earth invisibly all day long. On the planet, the winds are blowing: the polar easterlies, the westerlies, the northeast and southeast trades. Somewhere, someone under full sail is becalmed, in the horse latitudes, in the doldrums; in the northland, a trapper is maddened, crazed, by the eerie scent of the chinook, the sweater, a wind that can melt two feet of snow in a day. The pampero blows, and the tramontane, and the Boro, sirocco, levanter, mistral. Lick a finger; feel the now.

    Spring is seeping north, towards me and away from me, at sixteen miles a day. Along estuary banks of tidal rivers all over the world, snails in black clusters like currants are gliding up and down the stems of reed and sedge, migrating every moment with the dip and swing of tides. Behind me, Tinker Mountain is eroding one thousandth of an inch a year. The sharks I saw are roving up and down the coast. If the sharks cease roving, if they still their twist and rest for a moment, they die. They need new water pushed into their gills; they need dance. Somewhere east of me, on another continent, it is sunset, and starlings in breathtaking bands are winding high in the sky to their evening roost. The mantis egg cases are tied to the mock-orange hedge; within each case, within each egg, cells elongate, narrow, and split; cells bubble and curve inward, align, harden or hollow or stretch. And where are you now?

    Annie Dillard

  • Mindfulness Quote #13

    Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.

    Jack Gantos

  • Mindfulness Quote #14

    Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

    Thích Nht Hnh

  • Mindfulness Quote #15

    As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

    Diane Keaton

  • Mindfulness Quote #16

    As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

    Amit Ray

  • Mindfulness Quote #17

    As those of you with children know, rational parenting is like the Loch Ness Monster. We all hope it's out there somewhere, but we don't know anyone who has actually discovered it (and if we do come across someone who claims to have found it, deep down we think that person is a little off.

    Holly Sprink

  • Mindfulness Quote #18

    As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

    Jack Kornfield

  • Mindfulness Quote #19

    As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.

    Janet Gallagher Nestor

  • Mindfulness Quote #20

    As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns.

    Nancy L. Kriseman

  • Mindfulness Quote #21

    Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

    Evan Sutter

  • Mindfulness Quote #22

    Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.

    Eknath Easwaran

  • Mindfulness Quote #23

    Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life

    Rashedur Ryan Rahman

  • Mindfulness Quote #24

    Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.

    T.F. Hodge

  • Mindfulness Quote #25

    Awake my soul.
    Awake my spirit.
    Awake my desires.
    Awake my light.
    Awake my mind.
    Awake my hope.
    Awake my faith.
    Awake my love.

    Lailah Gifty Akita

  • Mindfulness Quote #26

    Awareness is bliss.

    Francy PilloBlocka

  • Mindfulness Quote #27

    Balance is the key to a long and happy life.

    Janet Gallagher Nestor

  • Mindfulness Quote #28

    Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

    Stefan Molyneux

  • Mindfulness Quote #29

    Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

    Bert McCoy

  • Mindfulness Quote #30

    Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.

    Russell Eric Dobda

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