Quotes About Mindfulness

Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready

Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.

Waking up begins with am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt

You think too much. Thinking will bring you nothing but suffering. Be simple.

Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

Solo estando preparado para tu muerte puedes vivir plenamente».

That's it?" Joshua asked, as he hopped off his post and winced upon landing. "Why did we set up twenty posts if we were only going to use three?" "Why were you thinking of twenty when you can only stand on one?" answered Three. "I have to pee," I said. "Exactly," said the monk. So there you have it: Buddhism.   Each

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat," Gaspar would say, meaning that every bit of our being was to be in the moment, completely aware of the now, no past, no future, nothing dividing us from everything that is. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live. If

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

do not worry about these things. find peace in where and what you are ~saphira to eragon page 429

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true . I know,--Glaedr

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

Live the present, remember the past, and fear not the future-Saphira in Eldest

One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.

let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not

Vive el presente, recuerda el pasado y no temas el futuro, porque no existe, ni existirá jamás. Sólo existe el ahora.