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Quotes About Mindfulness

Focus on It Often Bring your idea or mental picture to mind often, both in quiet meditation periods, and also casually throughout the day when you happen to think of it. In this way it becomes an integrated part of your life, and it becomes more of a reality for you. Focus on it clearly, yet in a light, relaxed way. It's important not to feel like you are striving too hard for it or putting an excessive amount of energy into it — that tends to hinder rather than help.
~ Shakti Gawain
Remember, you are a new person at every new moment. Every day is a new day, and each one is an opportunity to realize the wonderful, loving, and lovable person you truly are. .
~ Shakti Gawain
the Buddhist philosophy means by "letting go of attachment." It's similar to the Christian concept, "God's will be done.
~ Shakti Gawain
Try to picture yourself as clearly as you can, and think of giving love to yourself, the same way you would to anyone else you care for.
~ Shakti Gawain
If doubts or contradictory thoughts arise, don't resist them or try to prevent them. This will tend to give them a power they don't otherwise have.
~ Shakti Gawain
Imagination is the ability to create an idea, a mental picture, or a feeling sense of something. In creative visualization you use your imagination to create a clear image, idea, or feeling of something you wish to manifest. Then you continue to focus on the idea, feeling, or picture regularly, giving it positive energy until it becomes objective reality. . .in other words, until you actually achieve what you have been imagining.
~ Shakti Gawain
Almost any form of meditation will eventually take you to an experience of your spiritual source, or your higher self.
~ Shakti Gawain
Being is the basic experience of being alive and conscious. It is the experience we have when we're fully focused in the present moment, the experience of being totally complete and at rest within ourselves.
~ Shakti Gawain
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally 'count our blessings,' give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.
~ Shakti Gawain
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen.
~ Shakti Gawain
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.
~ Shakti Gawain
The clearer and stronger your intention, the more quickly and easily your creative visualization will work.
~ Shakti Gawain
Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, "No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.
~ Shane Claiborne
Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.
~ Shane Claiborne
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.
~ Shane Koyczan
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
~ Shannon Hale
She made herself take two deep-rooted yoga breaths, smiled back, and thought of men in breeches.
~ Shannon Hale
Doing your best is more important than being your best.
~ Shannon Miller
A cuántos malos tendría que matar? Su número, como el espacio, infinito. Pero si mato el espíritu del odio, todos mis enemigos perecen al mismo tiempo.
~ Shantideva
Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, It's as if the whole world has been covered.
~ Shantideva
We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?
~ Shantideva
We hate suffering, but love it's causes.
~ Shantideva
good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them.
~ Shantideva
Like a dream, Whatever I enjoy Will become a memory; The past is not revisited.
~ Shantideva