Quotes About Mindfulness

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

The less men think; the more they talk.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.