Mindfulness is the bedrock of all spiritual practice. With mindfulness, the simple becomes profound, and the common becomes extraordinary. Without mindfulness, even gold and silver will quickly lose their luster.
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
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Amit Ray
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
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Roy T. Bennett
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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Marcus Aurelius
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
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Jack Kornfield
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Henry James
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Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you...
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
