Quotes About Mindfulness

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.

The highest practice is the one that is most effective, not necessarily the one categorized as "higher.

Although some Western psychologies believe that the dreamer should not control the dream, according to Tibetan teachings this is a wrong view. It is better for the lucid and aware dreamer to control the dream than for the dreamer to be dreamed. The same is true with thoughts: it is better for the thinker to control the thoughts than for the thoughts to control the thinker.

Conversely, when we continually bring awareness to the immediate moment of experience, this capacity will soon be found in dream.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states. Instead, we begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity, and even with greater appreciation

memories, feelings, sense perceptions, or thoughts

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening

do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he

if it is prayer at all, it must be accompanied by meditation.

there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.

People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.

A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

relational mindfulness—stopping for a brief moment and centering ourselves. Observing, just as in all forms of mindfulness, the thoughts, feelings, impulses that arise—and choosing something different.

Before we can provide corrective emotional experiences for each other, we must learn how to tend to our own immature parts, to our own reactivity, to our avoidance, our long-suffering frustration. We must master the art of relational mindfulness and retake the reins.

The real work of relationships is not occasional, or even daily: it is minute-to-minute. In this triggered moment right now, which path am I going to take? Rather than being overridden by your history, you can stop, pause, and choose.

What determines when we stay wise rather than lurch into reactivity? Current research shows clearly that it's determined by our subjective sense of safety or its lack.

true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses.

This everyday practice is relational mindfulness—stopping for a brief moment and centering ourselves. Observing, just as in all forms of mindfulness, the thoughts, feelings, impulses that arise—and choosing something different.

Empathy, attention, and calm provide a scaffold that steadies the teen's volatile emotions.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.