As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully.
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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