Quotes About Mindfulness

But dogs don't regret what they didn't do soon enough, or didn't do enough of. Or what you didn't do enough of. Dogs are where they are right now, in this moment, and nowhere else. Which is why I generally keep the company of dogs, she thought. Chapter Sixteen: Pete Pete eased the front door of his house open and then froze, allowing his eyes to adjust to the dim living room.

He says the part that's driving us crazy is trying to fix a future that isn't even here yet. He says when it gets here, then we can figure out how to get through it. But now it's just driving us crazy because it's all unknown. So we just have to stay in the moment we're in. You know. Take things on one moment at a time.

I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.

Only I can control the messages in my head. I may not have installed them, but, with great effort and a lot of practice, I can at least choose what to play at what time. These are the best two life lessons I ever learned on a tough trail in the great outdoors: One, not to look up and see how far I still have to climb. Instead to look back and see how far I've climbed already. When I see what I just did, I know I can do what comes next. Given time. And, two, to give myself time.

But mostly I just kept reminding myself to burn every moment into my memory. I just tried to be sure I was always there. That I didn't miss anything.

Because, really . . . how was she ever going to be happy if she couldn't learn to let things like that be?

soon I stopped talking. It felt good to stop. Even though I know I said it was very important, what I was saying. But after a minute it didn't seem so important anymore, and that was a relief.

When are you going to learn to act in your own best interests? In spite of what your emotions tell you to do?

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

It is not so easy to always remember who you are.

Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.

why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Mira, he supposed, had always lived in her own head and allowed others to visit once in a while. With advance notice. And extensive decontamination protocols.

It's hard, dusty work, but Papo always says if you don't ride the present like the devil it'll get right away from you because it's a feral little creature with a terrible personality and no natural predators.

But the birch tree reminded me of how large the world was and how unimportant was my place in it. It became a reminder: to let things be what they were, to live unsentimentally. To pare away the unnecessary neuroses, the compulsion to be at the center of every thought; to look at the world without the intervening lens of self.

Why worry about what might or might not happen when the heart is longing only to drink in the breath of this moment?

You just get on with it and take each day as it comes. I always made sure I found one good thing in each day. It didn't matter how small it was as long as it was good and made me happy.

To truly feel gratitude is to sprawl out into the light of the present. It is happiness, I think. To be indebted is to fixate on the future.

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

You must school your mind and not let your fears be your master.

do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change.

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill.

Uren, dagen, maanden, jaren, zei hij bij zichzelf. Dit is de avond. Dit is de nacht. Het is oudejaarsavond. Over ruim acht en twintig minuten is het middernacht. Ik heb nog acht en twintig minuten. Ik moet mijn gedachten verzamelen. Ik moet klaar zijn met denken, als het twaalf uur is.