- “Unlike our minds, life is forever moving in one direction.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Through practicing mindful awareness, we cultivate discernment by being more sensitive to the bigger picture and how the present moment relates to it.” ― Benjamin W. Decker, Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
- “Be mindful what you talk about. Some things can be spoken straight into existence.” ― Torron-Lee Dewar, Creativity is Everything
- “You will know what you are supposed to do with yourlife if you always make love your guide.” ― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
- “Find your stillness. Find your acceptance. Find yourgratitude. And most of all find you in the magic. You’rethere. You’re the magic moment. Now let it happen and itwill. Believe in yourself.” ― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
- “With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
- “Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and others.” ― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
- “Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good is it to brood over the past and fret about the future? Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment. Live in harmony with the dharma. Make it the heart of your life and experience. Be the master of your own destiny.” ― Dilgo Khyentse, The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
- “…we have a way of talking about beauty as though beauty were only skin deep. But real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness in order to understand what beauty is.-Barry Lopez, Interview with Bill Moyers, Journal, April 30, 2010” ― Barry Lopez
- “I’m grateful for the little things you do for me. Not to show me you love me, rather, because you love me.” ― John Casey, Raw Thoughts
- “Or maybe I discovered something more fundamental: worry is a constriction. A mind narrows when it has too much to bear. Art is not born of unwanted constriction. Art wants formless and spacious quiet, anti-social daydreaming, time away from the consumptive volume of everyday life.” ― Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
- “Your mind constantly seeks proof that will confirm your beliefs. If you have negative beliefs, your mind will seek to prove those negative thoughts. If you have positive beliefs, your minds will seek to prove those positive thoughts. Therefore, it is important to be mindful of our beliefs.” ― Akiroq Brost
- “You will attract people with all six of these qualities—the extremely positive qualities because you may not feel that you deserve them and the extremely negative ones because you refuse to acknowledge their presence in your life. Once you can see yourself in others, it will become much easier to connect with them, and through that connection to discover unity consciousness. The door to synchrodestiny will open. Such is the power of the mirror of relationship.” ― Deepak Chopra, Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles
- “Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- “When you’re present in the moment with total awareness, you become finely tuned to anything that feels out ofstep or not in alignment with who you are. And when westep out of Mindfulness, we can immediately feel that we are not fully aware, or connected to ourselves completely.” ― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
- “Dr. Kristin Neff is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She runs the Self-Compassion Research Lab, where she studies how we develop and practice self-compassion. According to Neff, self-compassion has three elements: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. Here are abbreviated definitions for each of these: Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. Common humanity: Common humanity recognizes that suffering and feelings of personal inadequacy are part of the shared human experience—something we all go through rather than something that happens to “me” alone. Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negative emotions so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated. We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time. Mindfulness requires that we not “over-identify” with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negativity.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
- “Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.” ― Sharon Salzberg
- “Like parables of meaningful relationships, your inner relationship demands you awaken to yourself.” ― David Pollak, Epic Emotion: How You Win With You
- “Keep your opinion to yourself unless it’s asked for.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “Like a boundless sea, we have the capacity to embrace the waves of life as they move through us. Even when the sea is stirred up by the winds of self-doubt, we can find our way home.” ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
- “I’m glad to get home, but I have no worry. If we are in a hurry we die in the outcome.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
- “I feel cut off only because I am split within myself, because I try to be divided from my own feelings and sensations. What I feel and sense therefore seems foreign to me. And on being aware of the unreality of this division, the universe does not seem foreign any more. For I am what I know; what I know is I. The sensation of a house across the street or of a star in outer space is no less I than an itch on the sole of my foot or an idea in my brain.” ― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
- Allowing the new to happen means putting aside your memory so the past does not interfere. Osho
- “We cultivate confidence by engaging in creative, simple and brief mindful meditations.” ― Adam Dacey
- “Life wisdom“When anger is not in control, there appears ‘I’;When desire is fulfilled, there enters ‘I’;When greed overtakes the need, there develops ‘I’;When desire is secured, emotional attachment takes over desire, there gains ‘I’,When pride is erected due to money, beauty, power, people, youthfulness, there is always ‘I’,When jealousy crawls over contentment, it gets into the grip of ‘I’,When good things enter life, ego dominates, and there maintains ‘I’.When ‘I or Ego’ comes everything goes, when‘Ego’ goes everything comes. Overcoming Ego brings peace and happiness” ― Venu CV
- “Meditation has nothing to do with achieving a result. It is not a matter of breathing in a particular way, or looking at your nose, or awakening the power to perform certain tricks, or any of the rest of that immature nonsense…. Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being carried along by the wind—to be choicelessly aware of all that is part of meditation.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti