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    Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

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    Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

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    Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

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    Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

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    Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.

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    Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.

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    Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

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    Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

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    Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

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    Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

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    Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

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    Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

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    Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

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    Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

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    Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

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    Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

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    Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

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    Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

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    Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

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    Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

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    No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

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    No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.

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    Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

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    No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

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    Only the present moment contains life.

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    Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

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    One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

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    Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

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    Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

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    Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

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    Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

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    Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

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    See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

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    Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

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    Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

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    Take more time, cover less ground.

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    Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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    The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

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    The next message you need is always right where you are.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

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    The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

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    The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

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    The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

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    The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

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    There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

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    There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

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    This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely!

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    The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

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    The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

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    This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

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    Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.