There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.
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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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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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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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In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
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Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
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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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If you look at people out on the street, if you look at people at restaurants, nobody’s having conversations anymore. They’re sitting at dinner looking at their phone, because their brain is so addicted to it.
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Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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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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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The real meditation is how you live your life.
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