Quotes About Mindfulness

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don't give a shit.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Conservation of energy," said Churchill, "Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Wyje?d?am, skr?cam na Orlen, ?eby wzi?? podwójne espresso w kartonowym kubku. Pij? ?apczywie i prawie si? parz?, bo chc? w tym najciemniejszym dniu ?wiata mie? jasny umys?. ?eby to wszystko, co widz? i s?ysz?, wchodzi?o g??biej. ?eby przeszywa?o na wylot. Poniewa? nic innego nie mo?emy zrobi?.

Kuulata saab vaid see, kes unustab vahel kella vaadata.

How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

expect nothing from the future

Ne çok zaman geçmiÅŸ ne çok zaman yitirilmiÅŸti, ama tek bir düÅŸünceyle ve tek bir saniyede en baÅŸa dönülebiliyordu...

Only the man who could look into the future without worry could thoroughly enjoy the present.

Nur wer sorglos in die Zukunft blicken konnte, genoß mit gutem Gefühl die Gegenwart.

Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment

Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world.

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers a choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers s choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of meditation, this simple but essential step involves turning your mind away from its usual preoccupation with external events — or, just as often, with the story it tells you about external events — and toward your inner sensate experience. If you're like most people, you're so caught up with what's happening around you

These four practices—concentration, receptive awareness, cultivation, and contemplation—constitute the major uses of awareness throughout the world's great meditative traditions.

When people bore me, I close my eyes and try to remember the order the Seven Dwarfs marched in. But it's not always the dwarfs I think about. Sometimes aI try to list all of the Canadian provinces.

I put Post-It notes everywhere to remind me of everything. I stick a ton of them on my computer monitor, telephone, and wallet. The problem now is that there are so many of them that my mind has blocked them all out. So I now need Post-It notes to remind me to look at my Post-It notes.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.