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Quotes About Mindfulness

Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body.
~ Ilchi Lee
Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.
~ Ilchi Lee
You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.
~ Ilchi Lee
Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.
~ Ilchi Lee
Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.
~ Ilchi Lee
Every time you see your belly button, remember that your life is connected with the life of the planet,
~ Ilchi Lee
Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.
~ Ilchi Lee
The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.
~ Ilchi Lee
The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.
~ Ilchi Lee
By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.
~ Ilchi Lee
You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point," "When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.
~ Ilchi Lee
Dahnhak is not a way to gain enlightenment, but a way to actualize enlightenment. Dahnhak is a way to train yourself so that you can actualize the choices you have already made based on your enlightenment.
~ Ilchi Lee
When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.
~ Ilchi Lee
The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.
~ Ilchi Lee
Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.
~ Ilchi Lee
Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.
~ Ilchi Lee
Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.
~ Ilchi Lee
If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
~ Ilchi Lee
For most people, meditation is associated with relaxation and peace of mind, and these are the practical reasons many people seek out, learn, and practice meditation. However, relaxation and peace of mind are only half of the uses of meditation. The other, probably more important aspect, is for creation.
~ Ilchi Lee
Breathing is the master key of life.
~ Ilchi Lee
getting back into the rhythmn of a happy, healthy life
~ Ilchi Lee
But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
~ Colin Farrell
It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.
~ Colin Meloy
The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.
~ Colin Wilson