Andy Puddicombe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Ordinary #Littles #Moments
Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Smell #Differences #Appreciate
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Littles #Way #Little Things
Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Meditation #Uncertainty
Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#God #People #Meditation
We canâ€™t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. Thatâ€™s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You donâ€™t have to burn any incense, and you definitely donâ€™t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Focus #Meditation #Mindfulness
We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Focus #Meditation #Mindfulness

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

Andy Puddicombe famous quotes

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