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Leonardo Da Vinci didn't just study Mindfulness—they mastered it. This archive captures the principles and frameworks they developed through direct experience. Each quote includes source context, allowing you to trace their thinking from observation to insight. Use this collection when you're serious about understanding Mindfulness at a deeper level, not just consuming motivational content.
"The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature."
"The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can consider the infinite works of nature."
"The painter who draws merely by practice and eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every object set before it without being conscious of their existence."
"Blame not that which you do not understand."
"Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
"The soul can never be infected by the corruption of the body, but acts in the body like the wind which causes the sound of the organ."
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
"The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake."
"The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time present."
"The painter who draws merely by practice and eye is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it."
"He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."
"The poet's mind is a mirror, which is always changing to the color of that which it has before it."
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