Quotes About Mindfulness

People always get worried about whether they're doing zazen right. But basically if you're doing it at all, you're probably doing it right — even if your thoughts won't stop, even if you're sleepy or irritable, even if it just feels boring.

At every moment of every day, no matter how I feel about the situation, whether it is mind-blowingly thrilling or completely brain-numbing, I am the totality of the universe experiencing the fullness of itself. Even if I don't notice it.

You do not become a Buddha by having some magical, mystical experience that confers Buddhahood on you, after which you can just slack off for the rest of your life. Buddhahood is something fragile and precious that must be cared for and maintained. It's not automatic, and it's not easy.

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

Master your emotions.

May the lightness of your happiness out-interest you from the heaviness of your thoughts.

To observe and to live are very different modes of experience.

I'm keeping an eye on the future, an eye on the past, and the present in my pocket.

Would you choose water over wine?

One day at a time, one round at a time, one step at time."

We all are damaged in our own way just trying to make it to another day. A moment at a time, a breath to stay present in acknowledging the fact that death is looming over us all.

You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today.

there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Have you no thoughts on the matter?" Blushweaver finally asked. "I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and-if you're not careful-those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book." Blushweaver sighed. "You avoid thinking, you avoid me, you avoid effort... is there anything you don't avoid?" "Breakfast.

Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.

A man who speaks his mind is a man with mind to speak of.

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book." Blushweaver

Be careful what you speak . . . only your thoughts are safe.

I underclock conversations. If I focus my full efforts, it takes you several minutes in relative time to speak a single syllable.

Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been.

Get better. Learn to accept that sometimes what you feel isn't invalid, but that it doesn't mean you have to act according to those feelings either.

The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?