18 Powerful Mindfulness Quotes To Inspire you
MINDFULNESS
We were all born with it.
So why is it so hard to practice mindfulness in everyday life?
Perhaps because modern life makes MINDLESSNESS the default option. It’s easy to go along with advertising that promotes mindless consumption. It’s much harder to pause before buying to see if breathing is enough. It’s easy to wold down lunch without thinking. It’s harder to eat with awareness and gratitude.
Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies our power and our freedom.
~ Viktor Frankl (Austrian Psychiatrist and Holocaust survival)
One of the foundations of mindfulness (identified by Buddha) is feeling/emotion. Emotion/feeling is a vibration in your body caused by a thought. The key is to know, when you are feeling a pleasant feeling and when you are feeling a painful feeling, and not to get wrapped in them. Watch the feeling arise, and then watch it vanish. Observe. No matter how good or bad it feels, the emotion isn’t going to last.
Trust yourself, and allow any emotion, positive or negative. The good news is that all feelings are HARMLESS.
Start to pay attention to experiences and how you feel.
Once you’re aware of your feelings, then you can get authority over them and over your life.
Most people don’t allow their feelings. Instead, they resist, react, or avoid them.
Most people are afraid of their emotions. They’re afraid to feel.
Be different. Learn to allow your emotions.
When you allow your feeling, you name it.
Process it.
Breathe into it.
Make it stronger. Move into it and through it.
Don’t judge it. Don’t react.
Just observe.
Love yourself enough to give yourself the gift of being able to feel what you feel.
Start now.
Unlearn the old habits, and reconnect with yourself.
Adopt a Mindful Mindset. A mindful mindset is open, caring and non-judgemental. It’s about noticing what you have.
It’s about not wanting things to be different than the way they are. It’s about working with things as you find them. Let go of control and be open to a wider and wider array of your experience.
I have put together 18 powerful mindfulness quotes to inspire you on your journey.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ~ Lao Tzu
“Mindfulness is opening to or receiving the present moment, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” ~ Sylvia Boorstein (Teacher of Buddhism & Mindfulness)
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” If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude.” ~ Harold Kushner
“It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~ Pema Chodron (American born Tibetan Buddhist Nun)
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
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“If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. ” ~ J.K.Rowling
“When you discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough to make room for it in your life.” ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
“Running away from emotion is a sure way to carry it with you.” ~ Nayyirah Waheed
“Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.” ~ Jack Kornfield
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“The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~ S.N.Goenka
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” ~ Hafiz
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“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you’, that would suffice.” ~ Meister Eckhart
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” ~ Albert Camus
“Self-motivation…is at the heart of creativity, responsibility, healthy behaviour, and lasting change.” ~ Edward Deci
“If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt mixed with air.” ~ Mayyirah Waheed
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“A mind which is not protected by mindfulness is as helpless as a blind man walking over uneven ground without a guide.” ~ Buddha
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How do you practice mindfulness? Do you have your favourite quote of all times? Let me know in comments. I can’t wait to hear from you!
Keep Shining!
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