Quotes About Mindfulness

In essence, when sensory gating channels are narrow, as they commonly are, we only perceive a very small part of the world around us. Only a tiny bit of the radiance of the world can shine in through the narrow aperture that is left; the rest of it is gated out.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star

A thought that is ignored soon goes away. And there it is! The space between thoughts. How wonderful to see!

You're a genius," she said. "Hardly," he said. "I just show up and pay attention.

If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?

This brings us to another class of lucid dream induction methods: falling asleep consciously. The second of the two main ways in which people become lucid is by briefly awakening from REM sleep and then returning right back to REM sleep without losing consciousness

In essence, the idea is to let your body fall asleep while you keep your mind awake.

The verbalization that I use myself to organize my intended effort is, "next time I'm dreaming I want to remember to recognize I'm dreaming." The "when" and the "what" of the intended action must be clearly specified.

3   See yourself becoming lucid. As you continue to focus on your intention to remember to recognize the next time you are dreaming, imagine that you are back in the dream from which you just awakened. Imagine that this time you recognize that you are dreaming.

try to let your first thought upon awakening be, "What was I just dreaming?" Before attempting to write down the dream, go over the dream in your mind, retelling the dream story to yourself until you remember it as a whole.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn't matter if you're going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.