#mindful

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#healing #health #meditation #mindfulness #buddhism

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light ↗

— Mary Oliver

#nature #poetry #death

. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#living #mindfulness #scriptures #food

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21) ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#happiness #joy #mindfulness #peace #present-moment

Patience has all the time it needs. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #mindfulness #art

You actions are your only true belongings. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#buisness #finance #mindfulness #art

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #wisdom #art

We cannot force the development of mindfulness. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #mindfulness #art

If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don't need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it, from them; and the way things have been going, we're not sure we'll be able to give it back to them in decent shape. And who are our children, actually? They are us, because they are our own continuation. So we've been shortchanging our own selves. Much of our modern way of life is permeated by mindless overborrowing. The more we borrow, the more we loser. That's why it's critical that we wake up and see we don't need to do that anymore. What's already available in the here and now is plenty for us to be nourished, to be happy. Only that kind of insight will get us, each one of us, to stop engaging in the compulsive, self-sabotaging behaviors of our species. We need a collective awakening. One Buddha is not enough. All of us have to become Buddhas in order for our planet to have a chance. Fortunately, we have the power to wake up, to touch enlightenment from moment to moment, in our very own ordinary and, yes, busy lives. So let's start right now. Peace is your every breath. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#mindfulness #philosophy #business

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personally made the wrong move. In reality, however, when we feel suffering, we think that something is wrong. As long as we’re addicted to hope, we feel that we can tone our experience down or liven it up or change it somehow, and we continue to suffer a lot. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#mindfulness #change