Quotes About Mindfulness

Contrary to popular belief, negative feelings don't need to be studied and analyzed. When you analyze your negative feelings, you'll usually end up with more of them to contend with. The

When you take time, often, to reflect on the miracle of life—the miracle that you are even able to read this book—the gift of sight, of love, and all the rest, it can help to remind you that many of the things that you think of as "big stuff" are really just "small stuff" that you are turning into big stuff.

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it.

He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them.

Thinking: The world is. It just is.

I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people who owned the cars that were nosed-in to their proper places in the lot, maybe between me and that woman out in the trailers by the gold mine, was how well you were able to put things like this out of your mind and not be bothered by them, and maybe too, by how many troubles like this one you had to face in a lifetime.

Stop searching. Face the earth where you can. Literally speaking, it's all you have to go on.

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as a present to myself but haven't made much progress there—though I need to.

No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es lo importante.

I think I could learn a little patience with myself if I took a view of myself that included concepts like dormancy (instead of laziness), seed planting (instead of just scattered), gestation (instead of doing-something-right-this-second).

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day. BRENDA UELAND

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work—and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn't have to do it perfectly? What if we didn't have to "do" it at all? What if we could rest—and let God do the rest?

When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.

We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. LEO TOLSTOY Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves—even if it's fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute minibath after work.

Writing goes much better when we don't work at it so much. When we give ourselves permission to just hang out on the page.

The brain enjoys writing. It enjoys the act of naming things, the processes of association and discernment. Picking words is like picking apples: this one looks delicious.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. KABIR