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A quick word about intentionality vs. mindfulness
Trying to launch a more intentional life?
I hate to break it to you, but you won’t even be able to get it off the ground without mindfulness.
Now before we get all confused: intentionality and mindfulness are not the same thing. Being intentional with our lives means we are consciously choosing how to live and what to spend our precious moments. Being mindful in our lives means being aware of and fully immersed in those moments.
While these are two different concepts, though, they go hand in hand. We can make the best-laid plans for living an intentional life, but if we’re not mindful — if we’re not paying attention to the present moment as it’s occurring — it’s all too easy to slip back into life on autopilot.
Top 10 little-known mindfulness quotes
Quotes are a great way to keep our mindfulness practice fresh and inspired. They can help us think about mindfulness in a new way and remind us to stop and check in with ourselves. Here are my top 10 mindfulness quotes that you (hopefully!) haven’t already read a hundred times. Print them out, pop them on a Post-It, carry them with you.
1. “What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” — Buddha
2. “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson
3. The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” — Sakyong Mipham
4. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
5. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” Amit Ray
6. “Every time we ponder a thought, act on an impulse, or dwell on a desire, we are setting in motion a cause that will have a future effect. Mindfulness enables us to choose wisely.” — Tamara Levitt
7. “Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.” — Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
8. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.” — Rumi
9. “Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. “He who has freed himself of the disease of ‘tomorrow’ has a chance to attain what he came here for.” — G.I. Gurdjieff