Quotes About Mindfulness

On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.

When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing.

Now is the only cure for then.

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.

Practice acceptance on yourself so you can be kinder with your child. Practice nonjudgmental awareness of your life so you can save your loved ones from the cruelty of your own impossible standards and your hard-hearted disappointment. Practice greater faith and lesser blame. Take this blink of time when you are still stumbling at the gate, still awkward at the tasks, to turn down the sound and tumble freely in a state of grace. Life

You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

You can't fill a hole that doesn't exist.

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

Nothing is solid. Everything disappears. In a million, billion ways the world will fail you. How can you bear it?

Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?

Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing

Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love

There are moments in my life when I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, doing exactly what I'm supposed to do. I pay attention to them. They're my cosmic landmarks, letting me know I'm on the right path. Now that I'm older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present.

Attitude shapes reality.

This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.

Breath was everything. When nothing else could be done: one could breathe and shape and infuse that breath with strength and purpose.

Relax. Live. Keep your eyes open. See what comes.

This moment is perfect. And it's all we ever have. This moment, right now. We're fools if we fail to cram all the living and loving we can possibly do into each and every one.

Attitude shapes reality, Ms. Lane, and yours, to coin a grossly overused American phrase, sucks.

The world can wait. I can't.

It's not easy to remember what you are every single bloody fucking second.

The preparation, cooking, and eating of food is a sacrament. Treating it as such has the potential to elevate the quality of our daily lives like nothing else.

worrying about something you could do nothing about was useless;