Quotes About Mindfulness

How much better life would be if we began the day with a poem rather than the empty prattle of newspapers, with their diet of fear, hate, envy and jealousy.

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

The lie-in—by which I mean lying in bed awake—is not a selfish indulgence but an essential tool for any student of the art of living, which is what the idler really is. Lying in bed doing nothing is noble and right, pleasurable and productive.

You don't go around saying "Am I happy?" all the time, unless you're human, of course.

The next morning, Malcolm thought long and hard before waking up, for he had come to recognise over the past quarter of a century that rather less can go wrong if you are asleep.

Life is about eating and drinking and sleeping and breathing and working, and not being more unhappy than you absolutely have to.

She was about to laugh at the selfishness of her reaction, but she was distracted by the cool evening air when she stepped outside, the dusky blue of the sky, and the freshly paved street in front of her, its blackness bisected by a bright yellow line, a world so inexplicably beautiful that she forgot what she was thinking about and just stood still for a moment, breathing it all in.

Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. —Franz Kafka

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now.

People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets!

It's been said that golf is a Zen activity. I'd argue that if golfers were practicing Zen, they wouldn't keep score.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.

Kudra had awakened him from a long sleep. No, that was false, he hadn't been asleep at Samye, he had been in a state of heightened awareness, but there is a sense in which awareness can be as stagnating as sloth.

Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.

Give us this day our daily mask.

HENRY: You don't get visited by happiness like being lucky with the weather. The weather is the weather. DEBBIE: And happiness? HENRY: Happiness is . . . equilibrium. Shift your weight.