Quotes About Mindfulness

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.

We needn't look any further ahead than today or commit to any more than taking one step. When we've taken one, we can commit to taking another. Pretty soon we've reached fifty. Pretty soon we've reached a hundred. Pretty soon we've reached zen.

No matter what our job title, no matter what our pay, we can choose to approach our work with dignity and care.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

A habit of solitude in early childhood is not easily broken. Indeed, it may prove lifelong.

Amaba el tiempo hasta el punto de quedarse viéndolo pasar

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

I am Ayo. Joy. I choose to remember.

Vsakdo mora vaditi svojo navzo?nost tukaj in zdaj. Da bi se tega nau?ili, moramo svoj nemirni opi?ji um vedno znova potegniti nazaj, vsaki?, ko odtava v preteklost ali prihodnost. Pozorni moramo biti tudi na to, da ne zidamo gradov v oblakih in ne premišljujemo o namišljenih situacijah in tako odtavamo s pozornostjo.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him. 'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

La leggerezza interiore nasce forse dal sentirmi libera dalla zavorra terribile del futuro, indifferente al cruccio del passato. Immersa nell'attimo presente, come prima mai era accaduto, faccio finalmente parte del giardino, di quel mondo fluttuante di trasformazioni continue

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop.

As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel—the farther commonly the worse—but how much alive you are." Two

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

Now I see it's in the spaces where nothing is happening that one has to make a life.

The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.

Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain. At least four times as many classical poems are set in autumn and spring, the seasons of transition, than in summer and winter. But what that means, I realize as the years pass, is that nothing can be taken for granted; people are on alert, wide awake, ready to seize each day as a blessing because the next one can't be counted on.

Zen is what remains when words and ideas run out. · What we see and smell and hear is real, it reminds us; what we think about that is not. · In much the same spirit, the Japanese aesthetic is less about accumulation than subtraction, so that whatever remains is everything.

So much of our lives takes place in our heads - in memory or imagination, in speculation or interpretation - that sometimes I feel that I can change my life by changing the way I look at it.

Suffering is the central fact of life, from his Buddhist viewpoint; it's what we do with it that defines our lives.

And it's only by going nowhere- by sitting still or letting my mind relax- that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out.

If you think, 'I breathe,' " said Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen teacher, "the 'I' is extra.