Inspiration Mindfulness Quotes

Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition. ~ Celeste Cooper

CLOSE your eyes, SEE for yourself.
With your minds eye anything is possible, it is where the magic of Ideas, Imagination and Visualization come alive to inspire us to live our dreams or to heal ourselves ~ Hazel Butterworth

As helpers, we often feel the need to see our impact in tangible, measurable ways. We allow negative language into our head about the "broken system;" we look through a lens of "it doesn't matter, I can't make a difference". These ideas are surely contributing to our burnout. ~ Jenn Bruer

It is the inability to bear dark emotions that causes many of our most significant problems, in other words, not the emotions themselves. When we cannot tolerate the dark, we try all kinds of artificial lights, including but not limited to drugs, alcohol, shopping, shallow sex, and hours in front of the television set or computer. There are no dark emotions, Greenspan says – just unskillful ways of coping with emotions we cannot bear. The emotions themselves are conduits of pure energy that want something from us: to wake us up, to tell us something we need to know, to break the ice around our hearts, to move us to act. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom. ~ Allan Lokos

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. ~ Sally Jo Martine

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses. ~ Thomas Dubay

There are guys bleeding to death who don't know it, they're smiling, they're talking, they don't feel pain because they're in shock, they ask you for some water and then they're dead. On D-day I ran past a guy lying on his spilled guts with his eyes closed and his thumb in his mouth. Eisenhower's speech had been read to us over the loudspeaker by our commander when we crossed the channel that morning. What valor and inspiration were in his words- all about how we were embarked on a great crusade, that the hopes and prayers of a liberty loving people were going with us ... I got gooseflesh when he asked for the blessing of almighty god on this great and noble undertaking. But how to reconcile that with spilled guts on a beach and flies in the eyes of some dead nineteen year old kid who traded his life for some words on paper? ~ Elizabeth Berg

Then, if you bring a certain kind of open, moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness to what you're attending to, you'll begin to develop a more penetrative awareness that sees beyond the surface of what's going on in your field of awareness. This is mindfulness. Mindfulness makes it possible to see connections that may not have been visible before. But seeing these connections doesn't happen as a result of trying - it simply comes out of the stillness. ~ Peter M. Senge

If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain. ~ Christopher McDougall

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them. ~ Mark Twain

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably ... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction. ~ Thomas Merton

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions. ~ Nhat Hanh

The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light. ~ Charlene Costanzo

People tell me I'm too nice, but they never turn away when I am nice to them ~ George E. Miller

The spirit of sacrifice and selflessness of the defence forces is an inspiration for all Indians. Strong armed forces are necessary for an atmosphere of peace, amity, harmony and brotherhood in the country. ~ Narendra Modi

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. ~ Graeme Murphy

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher

The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me. ~ Keanu Reeves

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed ~ Carol Bell

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy ... should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ Margaret Fuller

Positive thoughts help us construct a positive life, one thought at a time. ~ Janet Gallagher Nestor

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family. ~ Martin Jacques

Be The Leader, Author, & Star of Your Own Life Story! ~ Naryza

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

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will. ~ Venerable Bede

Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook. ~ Piero Ferrucci

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle ~ Phyllis Diller

We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better. ~ Walt Stanchfield

Of Ruin and Renewal


We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Sorting through the rubble
Of our painful past.

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Waiting for the dust
To settle at last

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Searching for eyes that see us
And walk through the debris

We are souls
Of ruin and renewal,
We rebuild, we revive,
We repurpose our own story. ~ Liz Newman

Feeling like a winner.
There is no need for a race after all.
I just mastered how to walk
Differently this time. ~ Priscilla Koranteng

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough. ~ John Bunyan

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. ~ Eyvind Johnson

Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first. ~ Kirkpatrick Sale

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love.
Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us. ~ Raphael Zernoff

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm. ~ Stewart Brand

You have to loss something to gain something. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time. ~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ~ Marc Chagall

Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen,
Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen! ~ Sujit Lalwani

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap ~ Red Skelton

Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind. ~ Yonason Goldson

Patience Pays..Is true!
But the greater truth is that it takes
advance payment before it pays you in return! ~ Sujit Lalwani

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. ~ A.D. Posey

Inspiration is the timid beast that comes to your open hand once you've fallen asleep having given up trying to coax it from its hiding place. ~ Shaun Hick

Imagination is the door to inspiration and the basis of all thought. ~ Swami Vivekananda

If you can dream it or imagine it, then you can do it. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train. ~ Leigh Michaels

For those who dare to dream, there is a whole world to win. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse. ~ John Galsworthy

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. ~ Nicholas Sparks

Divinity encompasses all life forms. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If inspiration won't find you, then you go find inspiration. ~ Kristen Kaichen