Quotes About Mindfulness

Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.

Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies.

A wise person once said, "Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

In surrendering to our deepest fears, we put ourselves in touch with the fundamental awareness of just being—the true ground that is always available to us.

The first phase—the Me Phase of practice—involves clarifying all the ways we're run by the self-centered mind. It includes uncovering our most basic beliefs, observing our typical emotional reactions and patterns of behavior, and perhaps most important of all, becoming very familiar with our fears.

To "know thyself" has been a pivotal part of most spiritual traditions; here we will be considering it in depth in order to free ourselves from the self-centered drama of "me.

The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with "me" and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.

The third phase—the phase of Being Kindness—has to do with learning to live from the awakened heart.

you sit tiller " said Kokka " if whenever you move something jangles.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

The Lord said, 'Look unto me in every thought' (D&C 6:36). Looking unto the Lord every thought is the only possible way we can be the manner of men and women we ought to be

I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

No buscar ningún destino, ni mucho menos un destino feliz (...) prestando atención a lo que se ENCUENTRA , y no a lo que se BUSCA

Se foutre la paix ne consiste donc pas du tout à se négliger, mais à accepter la complexité et la nuance du monde. C'est accepter les intempéries qu'un perfectionniste vit comme une attaque. C'est arrêter de s'autoévaluer et de s'autovérifier en permanence.

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

live in the moment and make it so beautifulthat it will be woth remembering

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

atendía la vida como quien come distraído.