Quotes About Mindfulness

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

I teetered between a dazed existence and hyper-awareness. At times, I walked around in a state of confusion, unable to focus on anything, as if I weren't fully alive.

Things aren't bad or good. They just are.

The truth is that what we feel eventually comes out in our words and then our actions. If we are not careful, the actions we take when we are hurting will eventually become our legacy.

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.

She knows what she wants but won't compromise herself to get it. But she's feminine, like "Steel Magnolia" -- flowery on the outside, steel on the inside. She uses this very femininity to her own advantage. It isn't that she takes undue advantage of men, because she plays fair. She has one thing the nice girl doesn't: a presence of mind because she isn't swept away by a romantic fantasy. This presence of mind enables her to wield her power when it is necessary.

We fill our days with ongoing connection, denying ourselves time to think and dream.

In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts.

To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going "elsewhere" at least some of the time.

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.

But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. THE

And in our families, we can create sacred spaces—the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, the car—that are device-free.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.