Quotes About Mindfulness

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

You need to relax a little. Do so, and you'll begin to see things you were once blind to. You'll begin to hear thing you were deaf to. Life is so much more enjoyable than you think.

I think it is effective to constrict your anus 100 times, dent your navel 100 times in succession everyday. You can do so at a boring meeting or in a subway without being noticed for you to do so. I have known 70 year old man who has practiced it for 20 years. As a result, he has good complexion and has grown 20 years younger. His eyes sparkle. He is full of vigor, happiness, and joy. He has neither complained nor born a grudge under any circumstance.

Sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Debo dejar de fantasear sobre huir hacia otra vida, y tratar de averiguar como vivir la que ya tengo. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.

I wipe wet hands over my face, pushing back those thoughts. There is only now. There is only tomorrow and tonight and now and soon and never.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

in order not to make him a fixed idea, a regret, a struggle,—three things which poison life.

ethical conduct (??la), meditative stabilization (sam?dhi), and wisdom (vipa?yan?).

Red Bird in Snow You can choose to stop short - or have it not matter not weigh the brightness, not hold very still and be known to yourself again. A thing fills with exactly the radiance you accord it.

Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

But every time she tried yoga she found herself silently chanting her own mantra: I'm so boooored, I'm so boooored.

She found that the less she thought, the more often she found simple truths appearing right in front of her.

Back in 1998, the days were so much more spacious. When she woke up in the morning, the day rolled out in front of her like a long hallway for her to meander down, free to linger over the best parts. Days were so stingy now. Mean slivers of time. They flew by like speeding cars. Whoosh! When she was pulling back the blankets to hop into bed each night, it felt as if only seconds ago she'd been throwing them off to get up.

You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.

It wasn't that she'd found any solutions or experienced any earth-shattering revelations, but the act of observing her looping thoughts seemed slow them down until at last they came to a complete stop, and she'd found that for moments of time she thought... nothing. Nothing at all. Her mind was quite empty. And those moments were lovely.

Stay still. Stop talking. Stop wanting. Just be. You'll hear it, or feel it. Close your eyes and you'll see it.

when she was in the bath (not too hot—so many rules).

Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

All that we are is a result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

just stop thinking about it, you can't change what you did or didn't do, what you should and shouldn't have done.

that we are is a result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

It was annoying that the better stuff you got, the less relaxed you could be about it.