Quotes About Mindfulness

We unplugged all the clocks and anything that had a clock on it. We used our extra time awake to slow the rest of our time down. We cooked and ate and sat and talked and waited and moved and walked and we did it all slowed down. there wasn't anything else that we wanted to do but be awake and alive with each other.

The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it "quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I would say to Amos I have to do this or I have to do that," recalled his old friend Yeshu Kolodny. "And he would say, 'No. You don't.' And I thought: lucky man!

I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?" Thus

train were harder than usual to ignore. They were

Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is the inside of your own head. An unchanging landscape, a still photograph.

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

Life is not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living.

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgement.

He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

Dinlenmek, dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmekti.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance better than most, since a fair amount of what they call work consists of little more than daydreaming edited. Yet anyone who reads for pleasure should prize it too, for what is reading a good book but a daydream at second hand? Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

our everyday waking consciousness "is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

What would happen if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and more of a relationship?

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.

The journeys have shown me what the Buddhists try to tell us but I have never really understood: that there is much more to consciousness than the ego, as we would see if it would just shut up. And that its dissolution (or transcendence) is nothing to fear; in fact, it is a prerequisite for making any spiritual progress.

The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical.