#mindful

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#insight #love #mindfulness #psychology #art

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#inspirational #love #mindfulness #peace #art

When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

#compassion #counseling #dbt #dialectical #effectiveness

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #eastern-philosophy #mindfulness #art

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #mindfulness #psychology #self-help

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart... ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#buddhism #mindfulness #attention

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

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#philosophy #present-moment #mourning

Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#mind-body-spirit #mindfulness #peace-of-mind #purpose #stress-management

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing. ↗

— Ruth Ozeki

#mindfulness #dreams