Quotes About Mindfulness

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.

Sentence Completions to Facilitate the Art of Living Consciously

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider, not to look away but to look more attentively.

Those who believe they have "thought enough" and "learned enough" are on a downward trajectory of increasing unconsciousness.

No one is incapable of expanding his or her consciousness.

The practice of living consciously is the first pillar of self-esteem.

Again, living purposefully entails living consciously.

Self-assertiveness" without consciousness is not self-assertiveness; it is drunk-driving.

This entails the choice to see, to think, to be aware, to send the light of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being.

To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals-to the best of our ability...

The higher the level of consciousness at which we operate, the more we live by explicit choice and the more naturally does integrity follow as a consequence.

Experiencing our feelings has direct healing power.

Living consciously is both a cause and an effect of self-efficacy and self-respect.

To be in focus does not mean that one must be engaged in the task of problem-solving every moment of one's waking existence. It means that one must know what one's mind is doing.

We perceive consciousness as the highest manifestation of life. The higher the form of consciousness, the more advanced the form of life.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

To live consciously, I need to be sensitive to these distinctions. What I perceive, what I interpret it to mean, and how I feel about it are three separate questions. If I do not distinguish among them, my grounding in reality becomes the first casualty.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?

The first step towards change is awareness, the second step is acceptance.

La felicità è come una farfalla: se l'insegui non riesci mai a prenderla, ma se ti metti tranquillo può anche posarsi su di te

It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?