Quotes About Mindfulness

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

I had to hold on to the mad so the sad didn't drown me.

Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family.

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. —Buckaroo Banzai

For the walk, count "one, two, three, four" or you could say, "bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter" along with your pony's steps. For the trot, try humming a song like "Jingle Bells" or counting "one, two, one, two" as you post.

Not to get all Zen on you, but maybe you should love yourself more.

If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.

My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew them seven times.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

I want the quiet concentration of each everyday task to fill me with an active love of living and a passive acceptance of dying

One of the benefits of TM, Agatha had said, was that it enabled you to be "alone with your thoughts." But as I quickly discovered, a lot of my thoughts were not anything I wanted to be alone with.

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

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make sure you're all right.

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

Your past can only hurt you if you allow it into your present and your future.

paused to take another breath. "And taking these worries

It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.