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Quotes About Mindfulness

In any case, unless we learn how to appreciate what we have, there is no point striving for more.
~ Alain de Botton
The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.
~ Alain de Botton
One recipe for happiness is to have no sense of entitlement
~ Alan Bennett
Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
~ Alan Brennert
The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~
~ Alan Cohen
ACIM states that you will be appalled when you realize what you are truly here for (T-17.V.5:6). You thought you were here to get stuff, prove yourself, and find people to love you. Instead you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love. You thought you were here to fix the world. Instead you are here to appreciate what is before you and see the world through new eyes.
~ Alan Cohen
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
~ Alan Cohen
Completion is an attitude, not an event.
~ Alan Cohen
Be at peace with your choices. They all serve you.
~ Alan Cohen
Do not wait for the future to be happy. You are happy now, or you are not.
~ Alan Cohen
You were born to enjoy your life, not repair it.
~ Alan Cohen
It's not more time you need. It's more quality use of the time you already have.
~ Alan Cohen
The thought that your life is moving too slowly is a sign that you are moving too fast. Rushing never improves the quality of our life or the results we seek; to the contrary, it muddies our vision and causes us to make errors that cost us twice as much time and energy to repair.
~ Alan Cohen
The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.
~ Alan Cohen
You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.
~ Alan Cohen
Therefore the wise are guided by what they feel and not by what they see, Letting go of that and choosing this. —12
~ Alan Cohen
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf.
~ Alan Cohen
self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.
~ Alan Cohen
Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.
~ Alan Cohen
Prayer sends love. Affirmation sees love.
~ Alan Cohen
Torturarnos a nosotros mismos o a los demás por alguna razón es una historia enfermiza de creación propia. Nada de eso es necesario.
~ Alan Cohen
Who would you be if you dropped your complaints?
~ Alan Cohen
Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons.
~ Alan Cohen
If you fear looking at your true self, you'll find many ways to distract yourself from it. Busyness, drama, and addictions are ways of avoiding facing yourself. To find the peace you seek, stop running and just he. Get to know who you really are. Remember the wholeness you felt before you joined the rush to nowhere. Then you'll recognize yourself through the eyes of love, and everything will be different.
~ Alan Cohen