Quotes About Mindfulness

Try not to worry... take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake—otherwise it just walks on in your door.

In the midst of a pleasant conversation with someone she might say, "Why do you chew with your mouth open?" not because the answer interested her but because she wanted to see the person's face change rapidly. She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments—no ego. For that reason she felt no compulsion to verify herself—be consistent with herself.

If you know how to tread, bottomlessness need not concern you.

Are you progressing to be more and more like Jesus Christ? Are you investing in the moment rather than being bound by yesterday or worrying about tomorrow?

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Focus equals feeling.

She attributed her own fine sewing to the prolonged periods of silence at Meeting; these had made her thoughts level and her hand steady, which was reflected in her even stitching.

Father always said fishing is about not fishing as much as fishing." Indeed. And about not thinking. We all need to do things that take us out of ourselves.

To be a real traveler you must be willing to give yourself over to the moment and take yourself out of the center of your universe

You got to be praying all the time, or else you're just thinking about yourself.

Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live.

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.

If you spend too much time focused on the dead or broken, you'll find death perched on your shoulder...

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

When we constantly fill up all our "empty" time with stimulation in the form of electronic devices, games, and distractions, our brains become disengaged and the thinking process is effectively halted. We never get to hear our own inner voice-we don't develop a relationship with ourselves and our minds. We don't get to know who we are because we're not listening.

Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Confucius says the wise man forgets insults just as the ungrateful man forgets good deeds.

The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know anything, and I know that I don't have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here

Be conten with who you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor look on to it.

Tethered to our smart phones, we are too caught up and distracted to take the time necessary to sort through complexity or to locate submerged purpose . In our urgent rush to get "there," we are going everywhere but being nowhere. Far too busy managing with transactive speed, we rarely step back to lead with transformative significance.

That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!