Quotes About Mindfulness

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

our experience is what we attend to

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

The supreme contemporary example of such an inability to feel evil is of course Walt Whitman. His favorite occupation, writes his disciple, Dr. Bucke seemed to be strolling or sauntering about outdoors by himself, looking at the grass, the trees, the flowers, the vistas of light, the varying aspects of the sky, and listening to the birds, the crickets, the tree frogs, and all the hundreds of natural sounds.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Let every man sweep the snow from before his own doors, and not busy himself about the frost on his neighbour?s tiles.

The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.

One step at a time is good walking.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.

Take a second look... It costs you nothing.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair

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