Quotes About Mindfulness

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) , Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

You'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got.

El patrón respiratorio se caracteriza por un ritmo regular, de baja frecuencia y con espiraciones prolongadas; el aire entra y sale por la nariz, la boca está semicerrada y los labios relajados forman una leve sonrisa.

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

It was like being alive twice, seeing the world twice, and the new vision came through the eyes of a small, curious, unstoppable being who had never seen it before. We had our own little mindfulness coach, reminding us that when all else fails us in this life we can love our own toes, or the velvet coolness of a dog's ear, or his downy fur. People told us how we would fall in love with our baby, but not how through him we would fall in love with everything else again too.

quiddling' (attending to the trivial tasks in life as a way of avoiding the important ones).

Listen to Yourself. It isn't easy to sit still for yourself. Especially, Ruth points out, "when we're uncomfortable. And this is uncomfortable stuff, because there's something nagging, and you don't know what it is, and you don't know what to do about it, with a capital do.

What's the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too." - Savannah

Why...do you find this...distracting?

You just remember who the enemy is," Haymitch says. "That's all.

An immersion into greenery and sunlight will surely help me sort out my thoughts.

Mientras conducía a Coriolanus a la cocina, él se recordó que le autocontrol era una habilidad esencial y que debía sentirse agradecido por las oportunidades que su abuela le ofrecía todos los días para practicarlo.

Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it." Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer.

I just needed to hear it." She presses the bundle of pine needles to her nose and closes her eyes. The

what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.

to full waking consciousness.

A little remembering is all right but too much is a disease I am terribly prone to.

I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.