Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Paul Gibbons
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  1. Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. - Amit Ray

  2. Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. - Marcus Aurelius

  4. 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 - Jack Kornfield

  5. 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. - Henry James

More Quotes By Paul Gibbons
  1. Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

  2. Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

  3. Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

  4. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

  5. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

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