"Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening."

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Source : B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press

B. Alan Wallace

#Future Quotes #Past Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money,”
“There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.”
“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”

Source : Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.209, Random House
“Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.”
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”

Source : "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.
“I promise to love and cherish each of my sweet-faced fans forever”
“What gods do you pray to?”
“It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com

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