Quotes About Mindfulness

Effort, concentration, and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom NO external action needs to happen. [p. 17]

the delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

Reduce the duration of your showers by two to

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. –Minquass

Qué clase de hombre se rodea de las cosas bellas de la vida y no se detiene ni un segundo a contemplarlas?

Pero a veces el día siguiente no llega nunca, Pel. Algunas veces, lo único que tenemos es hoy

socializing with others is more exhausting than refreshing. I have to consider everything I want to say, and then filter it through my mind before I speak so what emerges from my mouth doesn't offend with its bluntness.

I'm not looking for what I had. I'm too busy wanting what I have in front of me right now.

Yo evito especular sobre el pasado. La vida es como es. Intentar sacar lo mejor de ella ya resulta bastante difícil, no tiene sentido malgastar energías lamentando algo que no se puede cambiar.

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier.

As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

Why is it that I find it so difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simply the lovely apple I was given in the morning?

I smile with equanimity and do not cherish grudges, as most of us adults do, letting them fester like a cancer. But I let my emotions run on the same forgiving and transient track.

it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything.

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter – – – for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.… Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

O teach me how I should forget to think

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.

God, what a life - living in the future and the past and existing merely in the present.

134 Parliament Hill Fields On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Faceless and pale as china The round sky goes on minding its business. Your absence is inconspicuous; Nobody can tell what I lack.

Sabato mattina, 13 dicembre. E allora impara a vivere. Tagliati una bella porzione di torta con le posate d'argento. Impara come fanno le foglie a crescere sugli alberi. Apri gli occhi. [...] Impara come fa la luna a tramontare nel gelo della notte prima di Natale. Apri le narici. Annusa la neve. Lascia che la vita accada.