Quotes About Mindfulness

What the jogger's face shows is not boredom but contemplation, which Thomas Aquinas described as man's highest activity save one—contemplation plus putting the fruits of that contemplation into action.

If you don't leave the past in the past, it will destroy your future. Look at what's in front of you, not what yesterday took away. The best is yet to come.

Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.

We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

Question your tea spoons.

To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water's edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.

Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.

If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it. (Life, March 1, 1968)

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

see worry as a waste of time because, in actuality, worrying doesn't work!

They saw that temptation coming but neither fought it off nor turned away from it toward something else. Simply, briefly, they chose not to hop on board with it. What did they do instead? Nothing. They let their spaciousness be. This

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.

Breathe deep. Especially when faced with an angry situation, you need to breathe—not just to calm down emotionally, but to keep your lymph moving. Holding your breath impairs flow. The largest lymph vessels and main lymph channels in your body are located in your chest. Whenever you take a deep breath, it moves the lymph fluid along, and the one-way valves in these tubes keep lymph from going backward.

feeding your flow with good nutrition, creating fast flow with intense exercise, and maintaining smooth and unobstructed flow with meditation and relaxation.

Try taking time for a few minutes of deep, slow breathing morning and evening, to train yourself for optimum breathing all

Place one hand on your abdomen; see if you can feel it move outward as you breathe in. This moves the diaphragm in a way that provides the most space for your breath. As you breathe out, tighten your belly muscles, pushing as much breath as possible upward and outward. Repeat for a few cycles, and remember to do this several times during the day, especially whenever you feel particularly tense.

Do yoga. The gentle stretching of yoga and tai chi systematically move your blood and

Even a few minutes of meditation in the morning and evening can allow your lymph to flow to the more urgent needs of your cardiovascular system, for recovery and prevention. Meditation and mindfulness practice have been documented to lower stress levels, and decrease cholesterol and blood pressure directly. As

Tener en mente los detalles de todo lo que quiere o debe hacer es tanto estresante como ineficiente.