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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn’t bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.
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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
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Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.
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Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.
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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
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No one can listen to your body for you. To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
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