Mindfulness quotes

10 Quotes for a Mindful Day

By ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D.

 Sometimes quotes can be just the bite size piece of wisdom we need to pop us into a mindful state of mind. Here are 10 quotes from leading people in the filed of mindfulness that might just do that.

1. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama
2. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
3. “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
4. “If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.” ~ Ajahn Chah
5. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” – Pema Chodron
6. “As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.” ~ Walter Landor
7. “Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love.This is a timeless truth” ~ Joseph Goldstein
8. “There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
9. “Realize that this very body, with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~Pema Chodron
10. “When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.” ~ Pema Chodron

Client-Centered Therapy

The definition of expert is as follows

• adept: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a ...
• a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Do I believe that I am an expert on other peoples lives, I would say not so much

Sometimes I am not even an expert in my own life, although I do have knowledge, skill and adept

and I do have special knowledge or ability when it comes to my own life.

How do I create an environment and relationship with a patient/client

so that they may remove the blocks

If I as a therapist can put the patient in the right environment and teach

them how to maintain this environment and to remove the developmental

blocks and things that have hindered them to developing to their best possible

selves I can say that I have done something.

Truly my only job is to come along side the and help the to find and cultivate 

healthy thoughts, behaviors and environments.

Thoughts

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
  - Charles Mackay

I wonder what are peoples thoughts are on this quote.  

Hope

Effectiveness what does being effective
in someones life look like?

How do I know if what I do or what
I say is effecting someone positively?

I wonder if this is not about me, maybe
I am just a tool that God can use- I pray
that I allow myself to be used in the way
he needs me to be used.