Quotes About Mindfulness

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

To remain "awake," to be fully conscious, means: to be present to the world of the spirit.

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.

You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do." And facing death changes that? Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. ... I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Remember this, Francisco," he said. "The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.