Quotes About Mindfulness

There is nothing worth worrying about! Not even death!" And again I knew - or understood in an instant - that death is exactly like falling asleep.

feeling the world flatten out. I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable. And time passed.

With each deep, measured breath, she imagined that various parts of her body were slowly going numb, from her fingers to her hand to her wrist to her elbow to her shoulder, until she was as close to dead as she could be. It was an old Fang family technique employed before doing something disastrous. You pretended to be dead and when you came out of it, nothing, no matter how dire, seemed important.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The idea here is to find out how to make the canvas of our lives continuously empty - to learn how to approach each day as a blank slate, open to any possibility. How do we lose the cornrows of the past, the deep tracks we've dug on a day-to-day basis that keep us bound to the conventions of who we have been and who we are supposed to be?

Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.

Never forget what is in your mind

If you want to ever achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing over something that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

But don't wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

you have to meet the outer world with your inner world to keep your soul anchored. If not, existence will crush you.

The more centered you are, the less you occupy the center. That's when awareness begins.

spiritual outlook can also help us deal with a body that is overweight.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

The alimentary canal is thirty-two feet long. You control only the first three inches of it. Control it well.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

In a time of famine typified by too many words with too much noise in them, we could use fewer words with more silence in them. This is a difficult concept to grasp, but you know it when you hear it. Some of the most effective language in the world leads you up to the brink of silence and leaves you there, with the soft surf of the unsayable lapping at your feet.

The reason mindfulness skills work so well in depression is that they help you create a space between you and your thoughts and impulses. This allows you to pick approach behaviors instead of avoidance behaviors.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

One becomes vulnerable when one stops to think about winning, losing, taking advantage, impressing or disregarding the opponent. When the mind stops, even for a single instant, the body freezes, and free, fluid movement is lost.

creating more space for stillness in order to reflect on important decisions.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.