Quotes About Mindfulness

Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.

One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?

My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day

The wise man strives for awareness. What will happen will happen, and worry will not serve, but anticipation might provide survival.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

There is a serenity in illness that takes away all the need to do and makes just being enough.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts

Walking is a state in which the mind, body, and the world are aligned… it produces thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task.

Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation: one is mildly disconnected because one is walking, not because one is incapable of connecting.

There is a serenity in illness that takes away all the need to do and makes just being enough. In

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

Uncountable the number off breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

T]he right way to pray is not to beg, but to picture good things, to banish all bad things from our mind.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a bit fat mess every time.

Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.