#mindful

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. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#life #mindfulness #peace #life

Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#mindfulness #psychology #art

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#change #inspiration #meditation #mindfulness #wisdom

Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#love #meditation #mindfulness #art

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #mindfulness #art

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#mind #mindfulness #practice #yoga #yoga

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#sacred-space #space #yoga

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#illusion #mindfulness #reality #thinking #thoughts

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#psychology #guilt

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. ↗