Quotes About Mindfulness

Remember, possessing feelings of anger isn't wrong. What is wrong is when we allow them to fester and then we choose to fight.

Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. (Psalm 141:3)

Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.' - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

It is an unwise man who constantly looks into the past to condemn himself. You breathe life today, and it is what you do now that will see you through to tomorrow.

I'd learned long ago not to hanker after what I didn't have but to appreciate what I did have

My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

the best way to stop worrying about your inevitable demise is to dwell on it morbidly until you're so bored that you forget it.

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Neither of us will ever move forward if we are always looking back.

They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

En eso consistía la vida: nunca te das cuenta de lo que pasa hasta que te detienes un momento para observarlo con calma.

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Will wasn't a fan of multitasking, mostly because it was more like half-tasking. It was humanly impossible to give two different things your complete attention.

When heedful interrelating produces mindful action, this is an example of people acting in order to think. What is different is that the acting is more relationally sensitive and the thinking is more situationally mindful. With fuller attention there is less confirmation bias.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

If you're worrying about the colour of your anus, things must be good, as you can't have proper worries in your life.

The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about the nature of the self. Grasping at the mistaken perceptions of oneself and other phenomena leads to constant frustrations, anxieties, and unhappiness. Understanding the illusory nature of the self allows one to experience things 'as they are,' without interference from conceptual constructs.

The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent asunder.