“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”
James Baraz
“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favorable.”
Matthieu Ricard
““What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.”
Victoria Moran
“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience... It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”
Sylvia Boorstein
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.”
Jon Kabat-Ziin
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
Seneca
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…”
Sir Frances Bacon
“The mind is just like a muscle—the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
Idowu Koyenikan
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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