Quotes About Mindfulness

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

There's almost always a calmer and ultimately more efficient way to do something if you just stop and think about it.

Once you got started, all you had to do was keep placing one foot in front of the other, no matter how happy or sad you were. I'd taken that first step because I'd wanted to look better. I'd wanted my clothes to fit. But it hadn't taken me long to figure out that the biggest benefit was less about vanity than it was about sanity. Walking always helped.

Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?)

As you walk, notice expectations you may be holding about what birds you may meet, observe them and let them go. Bring your awareness back to sights and sounds in the landscape. Open up to the unexpected in each moment - and accept the possibility of seeing no birds at all.

relaxation exercise. Close your eyes, take in a deep breath and hold it for several seconds. While you hold it, say to yourself, 'I exist for the pleasure of my Masters. This is what and where I want to be.' Then let out the breath in a long, slow exhale, releasing any nervous energy in the process.

Kneel forward." Jess lifted her head and braced her hands, palms flat against the mat as she lifted herself into position.

Spread." Jess lowered herself once more to the mat. This time she lay on her back, arms tucked beneath her in a box position, legs spread wide.

TO EAT IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND VERY PLEASUREABLE THING, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE VERY FRIGHTENING

It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.

A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I, he thought, to interfere with or dispute even such a simple thing as the falling of a leaf. He

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The mentally healthy individual", writes Wilson. "is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant – so that only the surface is disturbed – begins to suffer from 'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

During the course of an ordinary day, we are constrained by a kind of natural caution, an anticipation of possible difficulties and problems, which tint our consciousness a shade of grey. Talking and thinking about peak experiences makes us realize how lucky we are, and that we can dispense with the caution and constraint. It is like realizing that you have more money in the bank than you thought.

And in fact this insight had often been confirmed by experience. I had frequently noted that I became accident-prone when I had allowed myself to become tired and discouraged, and that some instinct for avoiding accidents seemed to be aroused when I was feeling fully alive. I

the man who thinks too much is likely to go to exhausted extremes where the world becomes a shadowy paradigm of ideas. To keep sane he must continually come back to reality.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

The second thing Elwood noticed was the boy's eerie sense of self. The mess hall was loud with the rumble and roil of juvenile activity, but this boy bobbed in his own pocket of calm.

I sleep poorly, but I nap rich

Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day.

Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.