Quotes About Mindfulness

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The paradox of slowness is that you will find you accomplish the task more quickly and with less effort because you are not wasting energy. Try it and you will see.

When you focus your mind on the present moment, on the process of what you are doing right now, you are always where you want to be and where you should be. All your energy goes into what you are doing. However, when you focus your mind on where you want to end up, you are never where you are, and you exhaust your energy with unrelated thoughts instead of putting it into what you are doing.

If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself. Without self-control, you have no real power,

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

Thinking isn't something you do. Most of the time, it's something that happens to you.

Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.

Mind thine own concerns.

To be happy in old age it is necessary that we accustom ourselves to objects that can accompany the mind all the way through life, and that we take the rest as good in their day. The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age; and the mere drudge in business is but little better: whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure

Fakat mutluluk için insan?n zihinsel olarak kendine sadakat göstermesi gereklidir. Ä°mans?zl?k sadece inanç veya inançs?zl?ktan ibaret deÄŸildir; inanmad??? ÅŸeye inanm?? gibi görünmeyi de kapsar.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

We find also here Charles Haanel, with his Master Key System, and his Eastern Philosophy books like "The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi".

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.

In meditation there must be a staying of the thoughts upon the object. A man who rides quickly through a town or village: he minds nothing. But an artist who is looking on a curious piece views the whole portraiture of it, he observes the symmetry and proportion, he minds every shadow and color.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.