Quotes About Mindfulness

We are often taught we have no control over our "feelings." Yet most of us accept that we choose our actions, that intention and will inform what we do. We also accept that our actions have consequences.

Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.

I dreamed about a culture of belonging. I still dream that dream. I contemplate what our lives would be like if we knew how to cultivate awareness, to live mindfully, peacefully; if we learned habits of being that would bring us closer together, that would help us build beloved community.

To live fully we would need to let go of our fear of dying.

Life can be found only in the present moment; because the past no long is and the future has not yet come.

While careers and making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing and nurturing human life and well-being.

When we surrender to the wait we allow changes to emerge within us without anticipation or struggle

To be here now does not mean that we do not make plans but that we learn to give the making of future plans only a small amount of energy. And once future plans are made, we release our attachment to them.

Peace is found not in the absence of challenge but in our own capacity to be with hardship without judgment, prejudice, and resistance.

A commitment to a spiritual life requires us to do more than read a good book or go on a restful retreat. It requires conscious practice, a willingness to unite the way we think with the way we act.

Attention is an important resource.

Bringing love into the work environment can create the necessary transformation that can make any job we do, no matter how menial, a place where workers can express the best of themselves. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it.

Branden contends: "To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know." To live consciously

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

have you not had your morning glass of shut up?

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

Toda la infelicidad humana tiene un mismo origen: no saber estar tranquilamente sin hacer nada en una habitación.

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All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room. —Blaise Pascal

Benditos sean los que no esperan nada, porque disfrutarán de todo».

Choose your battles," I snarled at Æthelstan. "That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.