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Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World QUOTES

Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World QUOTES

1 " Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

2 " Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’ W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951 "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

3 " A quietude profunda que tanto buscamos não surge porque o mundo está parado ou porque a mente está serena. A quietude é alimentada quando permitimos que as coisas sejam como são, no momento em que estamos. Momento a momento e respiração a respiração.
(meditação 4 - respiração e corpo) "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

4 " A sua mente frenética fica mais calma, não por todos os pensamentos terem desaparecido mas porque permite que eles sejam como são. (...) Recordar isto é atenção plena. "

― Danny Penman , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

5 " We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

6 " Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

7 " when you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it’s not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. • the effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you’re unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It’s like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

8 " Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

9 " Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

10 " You can’t stop the triggering of unhappy memories, self-critical thoughts and judgmental ways of thinking – but you can stop what happens next. You can stop the spiral from feeding off itself and triggering the next cycle of negative thoughts. You can stop the cascade of destructive emotions that can end up making you unhappy, anxious, stressed, irritable or exhausted. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

11 " In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

12 " Many of us find numerous ways to avoid or put off altering the balance between nourishing and depleting activities in our lives; usually for very solid-sounding and altruistic reasons. Some may say, for example: “I’m balancing being a mom, a career woman, a wife and a homemaker. Where do I find the time for myself?” Others will point to the large projects at work or home, and say, “Not now, not yet; maybe some day—when this project is finished.” On the surface, this approach seems reasonable; but try to see if it is possible to take the long view. In time, if we don’t rebalance our lives, we will become less effective at everything we do. We will become joyless, sleepless and witless. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

13 " It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life are less important than you had thought, and find it easier to let go of over-caring about them. You will find that the energy that they have been consuming can be used to treat yourself and the world more generously. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

14 " Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognise memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you. You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

15 " willingness or ability to show up fully in our lives and live them as if they really mattered, in the only moment we ever get, which is this one "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

16 " Depression is taking a staggering toll on the modern world. Around 10 percent of the population can expect to become clinically depressed over the coming year. And things are likely to become worse. The World health Organization1 estimates that depression will impose the second-biggest health burden globally by 2020. Think about that for a moment. Depression will impose a bigger burden than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer on both individuals and society in less than a decade. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

17 " The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

18 " now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you’ll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

19 " Context has a huge effect on our memory. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

20 " Tiny actions can fundamentally alter your relationship to the world for the better. "

― , Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World