Quotes About Mindfulness

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.