Quotes About Mindfulness

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all. 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 minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .

Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. Is today the day I die? he said.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside.

I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.

Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized that was the whole point.

You only have peace when you make it with yourself.

You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

He opened his eyes. He exhaled. You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.

How do you keep from envying? 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

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying? "Because," Morrie continued, "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.

Learn to detach.

Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. - Buddhists say

I envy them being able to go to the health club, or go for a swim. Or dance. Mostly for dancing. But envy comes to me, I feel it, and then I let it go. Remember what I said about detachment? Let it go. Tell yourself, 'That's envy, I'm going to separate from it now.' And walk away.

I believe in being fully present," Morrie said. "That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

you should never take anything for granted.

How can you ever be prepared to die? Do what the Buddhists do. 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?

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Do what the Buddhists do. 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?

I believe in being fully present.

When you're in bed, you're dead

Don't lose yourself... inside yourself...

Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out.