Quotes About Mindfulness

I came to myself, saw myself as itself and the world for what it is, and began to love life. Hm, better stop the bleeding in that case. After all, why not live? Bad as things are still when all is said and done, one can sit on a doorstep in the winter sunlight and watch sparrows kick leaves.

Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way.

When a painting I'm working on becomes my singular focus—when I am "in the zone," as I've heard people put it—a trancelike state will sometimes overtake me.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.

Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature—the negative—the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep—letting everything else take care of itself?

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints <...> and nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If not other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

I lean and loafe at my ease...observing a spear of summer grass.

Vagyok, ahogy vagyok, elég ennyi, Ha senki más nem vesz észre a világon, békén ülök, És ha mindenki észrevesz, akkor is békén ülök.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Ser feliz significa poder tomar conciencia de uno mismo sin llevarse un susto.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis," he later said.

Fans inside computers were not Zen-like; they distracted.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. They

Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.