Quotes About Mindfulness

We must all continuously recapture ourselves from indecision.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Es gehört viel Demut und Selbstüberwindung dazu, die Größe seines Geistes so zu verhüllen, daß kein Unschuldiger durch sie niedergeschmettert wird.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt

You just have to take one day at a time. It's a good idea to plan ahead if possible, but you can't always do that because things don't always happen the way you were hoping they would happen. So the most important thing is one day at a time. Tip

It's my responsibility to be as happy as I can, right here, today.

You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are completely in control of your attitude and your reactions to them. If you feel annoyance, fear, or disappointment, these feelings are cause by you and must be dug out like a weed. Study where they came from, accept them, and then let them go. If you let outside pressures determine how you feel and what you do, you have just abdicated your job as CEO of your own life.

You came and you will be gone. You don't even have to do something for it, it happens by itself. You came by itself and you will be gone by itself. So, what do you worry about?

Being on the tightrope is living everything else is waiting.

Heighten your awareness in all phases of your life. As you become more conscious of what you are feeling, what you are thinking, what you are saying and what you are doing, you will experience how heightened awareness facilitates results.

And as you begin seeing and feeling results you will have a greater appreciation for how extremely important your feelings, your thoughts, your words and your actions are to your well Be-ing. Your feelings and thoughts can bring you peace and joy or misery and unhappiness. And the beautiful part is . . . the choice is yours.

But these are only true or free choices if we have been able to awaken and heal. Otherwise, these choices occur automatically and are generated out of our conditioning, whatever that may have been. In order to have mastery over our choices so that they are indeed freely made, it is essential to be awake so that our choices are no longer unconscious.

To recap, as you master 1) Listening to your words-to your outer talk-you are training your Self for taking the next step, which is; 2) Listening to and hearing what you are saying to your Self- your self-talk. You then discover the passageway to your 3) Thoughts. By recognizing your thoughts you can begin tracing them back to 4) Feelings, which initially triggered the thoughts in the first place.

never let your emotions override your intellect!

You're beginning to make a habit of trying to drown yourself, Grace. I hope from now on you will try to restrain yourself.

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

Silence does not come," said Tadis. "It is always there. You are simply aware of it.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Never waste, never worry

It would be false to say that one could ever be alone when one has one's lovely thoughts to comfort one.

It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

Knitting had done more than provide her with a living; it had soothed her soul through more struggles than she could count.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.