Quotes About Mindfulness

Take your pleasures seriously.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

Certainly this is what many people feel during empty moments or deliberate experiments at meditation: a churning unease that says "I should be doing something". This cultural compulsion is so strong that even spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer are easily converted into just another thing to do, moments mortgaged to the campaign of improving life.

Maintaining focus on the breath cannot happen through forcing, but only through allowing. In fact, it is extremely easy; our habit of making things hard is what gets in the way.

As I mentioned earlier, the time to do is when you know what to do. When you don't know what to do, and act anyway, you are probably acting out of habit.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.

Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, but your predominant mental attitude is what counts.    19.

when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the "World Within" which controls the world without; you will have become irresistible; men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your

Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.

Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind, out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.

The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.

Inner Strength Study Guide

The Bible admonishes us to live each day fully—not living in the past or the future. But God never intends for us to walk blindly from day to day. He expects us to discern what He is doing and what He desires. He intends for us to have a capacity to see beneath the surface of life and to expose and analyze the unseen.

Josué 1.8 es un maravilloso versículo de las Escrituras acerca de los benditos beneficios del pensar concentradamente. «Nunca se apartará de tu boca este libro de la ley, sino que de día y de noche meditarás en él, para que guardes y hagas conforme a todo lo que en él está escrito; porque entonces harás prosperar tu camino, y todo te saldrá bien».

Meditar en las cosas buenas de la vida significa que su mente está dominada, impregnada, totalmente cautivada y completamente ocupada por buenas ideas, conceptos y perspectivas. ¿Qué significa esto para nosotros de forma práctica? Cuando decidimos pensar en cosas que nos inspiran, nos animan, nos enseñan y nos edifican emocionalmente, descubrimos que queremos seguir la voluntad de Dios, y anhelaremos permanecer fieles a Él.

Father God, keep my mind and heart fixed on You so that I can experience the fullness of Your peace, amen.

Hear me very carefully on this point. Nobody can take your peace from you. If you have lost your peace, you have lost it for one main reason—you have surrendered it.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.