#mindful

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #mindfulness #art

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#mind #mindfulness #practice #yoga #yoga

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#sacred-space #space #yoga

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#metaphysical-beliefs #mindfulness #piety #theism #transcendence

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#mindfulness #buddhism

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

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing. ↗

— Lisa Wimberger

#mindfulness #neuroplasticity #spiritual-growth #inspirational

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#daily-living #life #mindfulness #miracles #perspective

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. ↗

— Virgil

#despise #god #human #human race #mindful

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#am #i #i am #little #mindful