Quotes About Mindfulness

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Real life's only bearable if you don't have to live in it all the time

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

You have slept millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning?

Don't go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

Kabir says, only they are pure who've completely cleansed their thinking.

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego..." ? Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

Silence is not a lack of words. Silence is presence itself. (p. 26)

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Try to find out, by watching yourself, what you really want; if you approve of it, try to get it; if you disapprove of it, try to get over it.

Giving thanks all year round, all the time, often give you more to be thankful for. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

Learn from the past, enjoy the now, and prepare for the future.

Just don't let handling life be the only thing. You're meant to enjoy it as well.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Zen is a name derived from the Sanscrit word Dhyana, which signifies meditation.

Uno straniero si meraviglierà certamente che si faccia tanto rumore per nulla. "Che tempesta in una tazza di tè!" esclamerà meravigliato. Ma se consideriamo quanto sia piccola, in ultima analisi, la coppa della gioia umana, come fa presto a riempirsi di lacrime, come si vuoti facilmente per la nostra inestinguibile sete di infinito, non ci si dovrà stupire dell'importanza che diamo a una tazza di tè.

Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

Images and thoughts will constantly rise up within us. Let them recede into the background. In the foreground, put Jesus.

Prayer is a state of continual gratitude.

the ultimate purpose of the spiritual Way is not just a person who says prayers from time to time, but a person who is prayer all the time.