“There is, monks, this one way to the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and distress, for the disappearance of pain and sadness, for the gaining of the right path, for the realization of Nibbāna :—that is to say, the four foundations of mindfulness.”
— Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, Sutta 22 (Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta), as translated by M. Walshe, (1987), p. 335
“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.”
— Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2002), Oration 27
“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a “mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”
— Nyanaponika, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1965), p. 24
“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath (2015)
“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath (2015)
“Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.”
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath (2015)
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