Quotes Tagged ‘thoughts’

“Try to force things out of the mind and you merely add energy to them.”

by Bhante Gunaratana from Mindfulness in Plain English
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“Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself.”

by Jon Kabat-Zinn from Wherever You Go, There You Are
Tags: meditation, mindfulness, thoughts, thinking

“Mindfulness is the root of all the methods that tame the mind. First it focuses the mind. Then it eases the mind. Finally it is the luminous nature, beyond thoughts.”

by Patrul Rinpoche
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