Quotes About Mindfulness

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.

I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

Every time you tell your old story, you reactivate the negative emotions/vibes as a whole new experience in your body.

It's difficult to move beyond nasty feelings if you keep reinventing new ones.

every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

As I sit absentmindedly bystanders stop and ask. Can they not see that I am in serenity?

It's today I must be living.

First, daily write out your notes of desired good. Second, mentally image the successful results. Third, boldly and deliberately affirm and command those successful results to appear.

When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.

When our life is out of balance we have stress! Balance in your life does bring less stress to your life!

The only thing you will ever accomplish by worrying is to elevate your stress levels

And here is the thing about experiences that wake you up, Raymond: You try to get back to sleep, but it's easier said than done. Once you're awake, you're awake. Good luck hitting the snooze button, my friend.

You can put any kind of judgment you want on the way you feel, but that won't make it go away. Unfortunately you can't insult your feelings out of existence. Trust me. People try all the time. If it worked, we'd know about it by now.

The point is that it's you being destroyed by your hate. Not him. This is what the Buddha called picking up a hot coal to hurl at your enemy.

But we waste our precious time. Why? Why do we live like we're not going to die?

watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

By staying in the moment as much as possible. And accepting what is.

Funny how you can take a thing like carpet for granted if you always had it and you figure you always will.

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

It was time for me to practice relaxing about the things I couldn't control.

I'm trying to learn to be a nicer person.

Part of resetting your life is accepting where you are in your life right now.

Unlike Ed, she listened. But then she forgot.