Quotes About Mindfulness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus (55 ? 135 A.D.) said, There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

There is a fine line between knowing the stats your self-publishing generates and living your life around them. Some authors check their Amazon rank several times a day. That can only lead to madness and walking the streets talking to yourself.

Take a nice, long walk. Don't think about your book. Have a little notebook or recorder with you. You'll find the "boys in the basement" sending stuff up. When they do, write it down, and keep walking. (Note: I love Stephen King's metaphor of the "boys in the basement" from his book

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

Let us not go back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

It's my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.

I feel slow. I think slowly, I talk slowly, I react slowly. In the blur and rush of everything around me, I am more mindful. The mindfulness has grown quietly and surely, perhaps more a result of my slow, sparse environment in Kanglung than my own efforts. I can see how it would evaporate here without a consistent daily practice. I

Buddhism, we say that life is like housekeeping in a dream. We may get a lot done, but in the end we wake up and what does it come to, all that effort?

This sort of rhythm schools us to "live from the heart" more minutes of the day. To talk to others is to also pray for them.

Not many of us realize that we truly only live one day at a time. So live today.

Marcel Proust wrote in Time Regained: "An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, sounds, projects, and climates." Every hour my nose is filled with nature's fresh perfume. —DB

Try to remember only the good now. The rest of it no longer serves you.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Know your own happiness.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Recuerde sólo en el pasado aquello que le sea grato.