Quotes About Mindfulness

Every morning put your mind into your heart and stand in the presence of God all the day long.

It is the power to focus the consciousness on a given spot, and hold it there Attention is the first and indispensable step in all knowledge.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

When you open your mind and hands and heart to the knowing of a thing, there is no room in you for fear.

Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.

Something - a flick of color, the faint beat of the earth under my feet, or maybe my name in someone's thoughts - made me lift my eyes.

what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure.

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

How to Think Like Athena 1. Remove shoes. Stand on earth. 2. Find your center. Find your balance. 3. Lift chest. Drop shoulders. Let palms fall open at sides. 4. Open lips. Breathe. Feel air pass into self. 5. Open eyes wide. Look to the horizon. 6. Ask, what says the foot? Ask, what says the leg? 7. Ask, what says the sex? Ask, what says the heart? 8. Ask, what sees the eye? Ask, what hears the ear? 9. The mind is the body. Think everywhere at once.

1. What am I worrying about? "2. What can I do about it?

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

our hearts and minds are not engaged due to problems at home or elsewhere. The

One task at a time.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.—Henry Ward Beecher.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse

What am I worrying about? What can I do about it?

L'action semble succéder à la pensée, mais, en réalité, l'action et la pensée se produisent simultanément. En menant une action qui est sous le contrôle de la volonté, nous pouvons indirectement gouverner les sentiments qui échappent à son influence.

The lesson to be learned? Just this: our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.

21 palavras de Thomas Carlyle que o ajudaram a levar uma vida livre de preocupações: "Nossa principal função não é enxergar o que jaz vagamente a distância, e sim fazer o que está claramente à mão.

Don't stew about the future. Just live each day until bedtime.

Quando você, ou qualquer um de seus colaboradores, cair na tentação de se preocupar com um problema, escreva as seguintes perguntas e anote as respostas a elas: 1. Qual é o problema? 2. Qual é a causa do problema? 3. Quais são as soluções possíveis? 4. Qual é a melhor solução? PARTE TRÊS Como acabar com a preocupação antes que ela acabe com você