Quotes About Mindfulness

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Spend some time alone every day.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.