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The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of Love for Imperfect Things
“Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” —Elle
Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?
The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.
By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.
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Everyone is kind to someone they meet for the first time,
The question is how long their kindness lasts.
Don't be fooled just because someone is nice to you at first.
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Knowledge wants to talk.
Wisdom wants to listen.
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Many conflicts in our lives can be resolved if we put ourselves in the other person's shoes.
Try to look at things from her point of view.
If you consider only your side,
you are no different from a child.
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We Have A Limited Perception Of Life
When we look at the outside world, we are looking at only a small part that interests us. The world we see is not the entire universe but a limited one that the mind cares about.
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The world never complained about how busy it is.
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"When your mind rests, the world also rests"
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When our mind is noisy, the world is as well. And when our mind is peaceful, the world is, too.
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People react differently to the same situation. If we look at it more closely, we see it’s not the situation that is troubling us, but our perspective on it.
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Don’t struggle to heal your wounds. Just pour time into your heart and wait. When your wounds are ready, they will heal on their own.
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Three liberating insights
- people are not as interested in you as you had always believed.
- not everyone has to like you
- if we are brutally honest with ourselves, most things we do for others are in fact for ourselves
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Enlightened and unenlightened person
For unenlightened people, not every day is a good day, because they feel happy only when things happen the way they want them to.
For enlightened people, every single day is a good day, because they feel free knowing that nothing can take away their wisdom.
When an unenlightened person does good, he tries to leave his mark.
When an enlightened person does good, he leaves no marks
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Be aware of what you feel
When you are stressed out, be aware of your stress.
When you are irritated, be aware of your irritation.
When you are angry, be aware of your anger.
As soon as you become aware of these feelings you are no longer lost in them.
Your awareness allows you to witness them from the outside.
Awreness is inherently pure, like the open sky.
Stress, irritation, and anger can temporarily cloud the sky,but they can never pollute it.
Negative emotions come and go like clouds, but the wide-open sky remains.
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Part 1 on Rest & Mindfulness. Quotes and Teachings to guide you through life, to open your perspective.
It Just Is
Feelings originate with the mind projecting its subjective experience onto the world. The world isn’t inherently joyful or said; it just is.
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Our World
When we look at the world we only see the part that interests us, it is not the entire universe but a limited one that the mind cares about.
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Reality
Our reality is created by what we choose to focus on.
Reality exists because our minds are aware of it; without our minds, the universe would not exist.
The world exists because we are aware of it. We cannot be aware of a reality we do not perceive.
Our minds create the world by focusing on parts of it, thus making the mind significant in creating our experience of the world.
Training our minds to focus wisely is crucial for shaping our desired reality. In other words we have the ability to choose our world.
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"Does the person you hate deserve to be carried around in your heart? Keep in your heart only those who love you. If you carry around with you people you hate, it causes only angst and depression."
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Good or bad is always relative.
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Forcing your ideas upon "inocent" &"novice'' is bigger sin then murder.
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It doesn't matter from where you start it matters from where you end.
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Respect yourself
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