#mindfulness

You cannot control the results, only your actions. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #insight #karma #meditation #mindfulness

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

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#psychology #guilt

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

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both. ↗

— David Richo

#mystery #relationship #love

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#beliefs #infinite-possibilities #mindfulness #death

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will blossom like flowers ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#mindfulness #love