Quotes About Mindfulness

Drop by drop is a water pot filled. Likewise, the wise person, gathering it little by little, fills themselves with good." THE BUDDHA (DHAMMAPADA, VERSE 122)

As part of the Six Element Practice, for example, we may repeat the phrase, "This is not me; this is not mine; I am not this." A verse such as this is, as it were, dropped into the mind.

I encourage the following practice: pause before you share. I encourage us all to take a moment before passing on a quote or a news story in order to do a little research. Someone (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Buddha) said that "Google before you share" is the new "think before you speak.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

We appear in order to have our experiences.

Her momentary awakening can be called a "glimpse of freedom" or a "touch of grace." Many who experience it feel distressed when it passes, but its transience can offer encouragement to keep entering the silence of meditation

It requires continual alignment with the truth we have seen while awakening. It is more enduring—and therefore more challenging—than having initial moments of awakening.

You don't have to be a great swimmer to appreciate the benefits of sensory solitude and the equilibrium the water can bring.

I begin to realize that the physical repetition can be a kind of meditation that transcends the simple goal of winning a race.

Dave Rastovich: "We forget our bodies as we know them and we just . . . swim.

It's a reminder to slow up and be awake to the real connections we have while we have them.

What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now It was a beautiful day.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I've had kind of a poor morning," Adams said, as she patted his hand comfortingly. "I been thinking—" "Didn't I tell you not to?" she cried, gaily. "Of course you'll have poor times when you go and do just exactly what I say you mustn't. You stop thinking this very minute!

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. It's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

People get mad at the wrong things, blame the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons! Please, think before you act.

I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

When we learn to live in the present we are no longer chained to the past. We say to each other: "I am a being who notices. I have a particular psychological history but it doesn't have to dictate the rest of my life. I can choose how I live, rather than just react from my past the rest of my life." If people don't like that, we saym "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!

When you are in the thick of things, you can get confused by small stuff,