Quotes About Mindfulness

As long as there is consciousness, these two potentials exist—the potential to become enlightened and the potential to suffer.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that if we can maintain a calm and peaceful mind, our external surroundings can only cause us limited disturbance.

Clinging to a problem does not make it disappear, but rather just makes it worse, aggravating the problem and leading to frustration and anger in relation to the problem and even in relation to ourselves.

We are ignorant of the fundamental nature of the way things exist, and we feel anxiety because of this.

The antidote to such self-contempt is to develop a deep understanding of the buddha nature that we all possess, and see that nothing is impossible with perseverance.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. —HENRY MILLER

The rougher I treated my body, the more and more empty my head became. For the first time in several years, I could go to sleep and wake up feeling refreshed.

Jesus said, "The kingdom of the [father] is like a certain woman who was carrying a [jar] full of meal. While she was walking [on the] road, still some distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out behind her [on] the road. She did not realize it; she had noticed no accident. When she reached her house she set the jar down and found it empty.

Yesterday I sat under the hickory tree in the front yard. It's the only place where I find rest and just feel fine. I know fine isn't a lot, but it's rare for me these days. Even when I'm happy, there is something in between me and whatever good news comes my way. It's like eating a butterscotch still sealed in the wrapper.

He could have, but he didn't. No sense worrying about things that didn't happen." I took her hand. "I'm not even worried about what did happen. This is a fresh day. A fresh start.

Todo hastía, excepto el saber. Todo se vuelve rancio y fatigoso si es cosa del cuerpo, pero lo que es de la mente y el espíritu nunca cesa de satisfacer, nunca deja saciado y exhausto.

our every utterance will reduce the amount of air left for thought and bring us closer to the moment when our thoughts cease altogether. Will it be preferable to remain mute to prolong our ability to think, or to talk until the very end? I don't know.

It's funny: when you're tranquil,

How can this experience I am now having support the awakening of greater clarity and compassion in my life?

never paralyzed by the need to judge and to compare. They don't dwell on the fact that today's walk isn't as nice as yesterday's, or this forest isn't as interesting as the one they were in last week.

Sometimes all it takes to be happy is a dime on the sidewalk.

The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.

To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.

It's amazing how two simple objects can make your day.

we can develop willpower skills. It's more about strategy than grit or impulses. While we can't control what we think and feel, we can control what we do—which is where strategy comes into play.

A lot of people say when you get a short life span you want to go out and do all of this crazy stuff like go bungee jumping and travel to exotic places. But you just want to live.

I've got no attention span.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

I have a very short attention span.