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Originally Posted by Mindfulness
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Loved all of these - thank you for sharing them. I'm presently on a journey of mindfulness myself, reading all I can about the subject. I'd love to share quotes but cover to cover so many of these titles were beautiful in their entirety.
I began with Thich Nhat Hanh's
Being Peace.
Then read the magnificently poetic writings of John O'Donohue, beginning with
Anam Cara and presently,
Beauty: The Invisible Embrace.
Gary D. Chapman's
The Five Love Languages is, of course, a classic text filled with quotable excerpts.
Michael Harris'
Solitude was a thoughtful exploration of unplugging from the world of noise and commotion and finding yourself.
And I've ordered several additional titles from Thich Nhat Hanh, including
How to Love,
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, and
The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation.
My Google Doc of excerpts from the texts above is quickly growing too large for a single document. Here are just a few highlights from
Anam Cara -
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"We don't need to go out to find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us."
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"We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions, or people. We have to go deeper into that emptiness; then we find beneath nothingness the flame of love waiting to warm us."
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Stanislavsky, the Russian dramatist and thinker, said that “the longest and most exciting journey is the journey inwards.”
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“Ich stehe Mir im Weg” - “I am standing in my own way"
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T.S. Eliot:
"And in the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And to know the place for the first time."
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