Quotes About Mindfulness

If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it's so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

sake…. What are you doing? …

When the past is your enemy, all you have is the present.

Every day contains a thousand little servings of free time you might just have overlooked. And each moment contains beauty, wonder, and models you never need to pay.

I recommend keeping a diary. Diaries are cool.

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

I can stop wasting the dwindling minutes of the only life I'll ever have obsessing over past events I can't do anything about, and future events that might never happen. I can teach myself to focus on the only time that matters, which is this moment right now, and use this precious time to appreciate, to cherish, the people I love.

This is the peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts.

Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it.

Like I don't know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I'm alive. Maybe that's what's missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon.

Mis ojos vieron lo que vieron y mis oídos oyeron mi respiración y los sonidos que se sobreponían a ella.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

I knew what I had to do. I had to ignore the thoughts, resist the compulsion, let the anxiety build, and then let it decay to extinction all over again.

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

But if you don't decide what needs to be done about your secretary's birthday, because it's "not that important" right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effective, clear focus on what is important.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

Don't just do something. Stand there. —Rochelle Myer

THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing.