Quotes About Mindfulness

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.

There is no enemy more vicious than your own anger.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

Scientists are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.

I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.

Wendell Berry's formula for a good life and a good community is simple and pleasingly unoriginal. Slow down. Pay attention. Do good work. Love your neighbours. Love your place. Stay in your place. Settle for less, enjoy it more.