Quotes About Mindfulness

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

Quit try­ing to fix your life. Deal with your one big is­sue.

You wake up, and that's enough.

When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.

The se­cret is to not let your imag­ina­tion get car­ried away.

Can you just re­lax and let things hap­pen?

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

hotting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everuthing and just let go. Let go

To all of you alive people walking around, taking your multivitamins and busy being Lutheran or getting colonoscopies, you need to invest in a good-quality, long-lasting wristwatch with day and date functions. Don't count on getting any cell phone reception in Hell, and don't think for a second you'll have the forethought to die with your charger cord in hand or even find yourself locked inside a rusted jail cell with a compatible electrical outlet.

I don't answer. I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five. A tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

Because sponges never have a bad day.

The secret is to not let your imagination get carried away.

Everyone's in their own personal coma. What

Can you just relax and let things happen? I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? And Joy, shes says, and Serenity, and Happiness and Contentment. She says all the names of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. You don't have to control everything, she says, You can't control everything.

Durante un instante la mamaíta había visto la montaña sin pensar en explotaciones madederas, pistas de esquí ni avalanchas, vida natural controlada, geología de placas tectónicas, microclimas, efecto sombra de lluvia ni lugares yin-yang. Había visto la montaña sin el marco del lenguaje. Sin la cárcel de las asociaciones. La había visto sin mirar a través de la lente de todo lo que sabía acerca de las montañas.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

This is the greatest moment of your life," Tyler says, and you're off somewhere missing it.

I'm saying HELLO to everybody at work. HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Your attitude will determine the quality of your life.

Some of life's best moments are during a good bowel movement, and to have that robbed from you, I can't even imagine.

Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.