Quotes About Mindfulness

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Yes. But there's a better approach. 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.

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?

It's a quiet theft, how time lures people away.

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?

The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.

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

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays.

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

Holding anger is poison

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?

When you are measuring life, you are not living it...

They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty.

does no good to be angry or carry grudges." He made a fist. "It churns you up inside. It does you more harm than the object of your anger.

But out here, adrift, you realize how often we take our placement on this Earth for granted.

You counted the minutes, but did you use them wisely?

Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

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.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.

Holding anger is a poison.

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