Quotes About Mindfulness

Become aware of your conditioned responses that lead you to label people, places, and circumstances

Catch yourself when you have judgmental thoughts that could be considered harmful for yourself or others.

MAJOR PREMISE: I can control my thoughts. MINOR PREMISE: My feelings come from my thoughts. CONCLUSION: I can control my feelings.

shift from the acquisition of information and the pursuit of status symbols to understanding and mastering yourself in any and all situations.

naturally live a long life in joyful, nonjudgmental peace.

Spend some of your quiet meditation time visualizing a tiny spark of awareness glowing within your being.

Knowing that you'll always get some disapproval for everything you feel, think, say or do is the way out of the tunnel of despair. Once you expect it, you won't be inclined to hurt yourself with it, and you'll simultaneously stop equating the repudiation of an idea or a feeling with the repudiation of you.

Begin to consciously decrease your need to purchase more things.

act without being concerned for your own ego.

unless you are in sync with the Source within you, the behavior that you're offering is not inspired—it is motivated. It is not coming from Source; it is coming from the spinoff of Man's conscious mind.

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will. Sabbaths 1999 II

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts...

Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came.

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

Maybe she's right," I reasoned. "Maybe I shouldn't worry so much about taking accurate readings. Maybe I should spend more time just relaxing, and looking calmly at the world around me. Maybe that would help me get well again.

the self (or "object self") and the observing self.

Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.