Quotes About Mindfulness

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

At times of difficulty, watching birds ushers you into a different world, where no words need to be spoken.

There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge.

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

So she quit working to make sense of things— we don't realise it, but it's hard work we do almost every waking moment, building out thoughts and memories and actions around time, things that happened yesterday, and things that are happening right now, and what's coming tomorrow, layering all of that simultaneously and holding it in balance.

How dare people sleep, how dare they lie so blankly in the dark?

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

I like to jot down thoughts and ideas as I tread life's garden, for then sometimes when I am weary I can turn a leaf and find what my mood was on a certain day and that changes a train of thought and brings back sunshine.

simple life maths: Fewer new shiny things = fewer hours overtime = happier life. So

Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I've got,

Life, I feel, becomes unnecessarily stressful if you're rushing all the time, when a little planning can ensure that you arrive on time, unfazed

Fewer new shiny things = fewer hours overtime = happier life.

Cuando te encuentras con alguien, recuerda que se trata de un encuentro santo. 2 Tal como lo consideres a él, así te considerarás a ti mismo. 3 Tal como lo trates, así te tratarás a ti mismo. 4 Tal como pienses de él, así pensarás de ti mismo.

Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom you invite.

Una vez que una ilusión se reconoce como tal, desaparece. 2 Niégate a aceptar el sufrimiento, y eliminarás el pensamiento de sufrimiento.

remember to ask me to take charge of all minutiae, and they will be taken care of so well and so quickly that you cannot get bogged down in them.

The Course asks us to read its words slowly and carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this with the Text, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled and a new worldview arising in its place.

is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. 2It is the answer. 3The desire to have it and the willingness to let it come precede its coming.

For the rest of us—members of that peculiar, prosaic species classified by Pierre Bourdieu as homo academicus9—dwelling poetically could mean gauging the dimensions of our own habits and mindfully inhabiting the rhythms of our writing lives: taking pride in a beautifully crafted sentence, lingering in the hallway for a friendly chat with a colleague, and working with our neighbors to rebuild our academic habitus into a place of possibilities.