Quotes About Mindfulness

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different. I feel as if I've opened a door and discovered a way of life that makes so much more sense to me. A slower pace that allows me to actually see the beauty around me. Hear the song in the sounds and feel appreciation for it all.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

One lesson I've learned--worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley

I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thought. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Every meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.

I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.

I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.

There was a kind of sleeping or half-sleeping which I sometimes tried to achieve (especially at weekends) when I lay like a floating turtle, just breaking the surface of consciousness, aware and yet not self-aware, not yet tormented by being a particular person.

Uno de los secretos de una vida feliz es la continuidad de los pequeños placeres, y si algunos pueden ser baratos y conseguidos sin demora, tanto mejor.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Awareness is seventy percent of the solution.

IF YOU FEEL HIGH OR LOW, MIND THAT NOTHING GOOD OR BAD LASTS FOREVER AND TODAY'S THE START OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

Nimeni nu poate sc?pa de suferin??, cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face e s? nu suferim orbeÈ™te.

I have always found in my own work – quite different from yours, of course, but possibly we may generalize – that zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind – not labouring under the weight of concentrated thought – may solve the problem for you.

I have always found in my own work—quite different from yours, of course, but possibly we may generalize—that zeroing in tightly on a particular problem is self-defeating. Why not relax and talk about something else, and your unconscious mind—not laboring under the weight of concentrated thought—may solve the problem for you.

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

You only have one life, but if you live it well, that's enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.