Quotes About Mindfulness

She reminds herself that everyone has thoughts they wouldn't care to share with the world.

avail. I choose my mood, she told herself as she stood in the kitchen, tossing back evening primrose capsules like Valium.

You will eat slowly and mindfully and only what your body needs.

the screen. "Let me leave you with these words: 'Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.' The Buddha." She

He lived in the moment, as you were meant to do. He practised mindfulness. No yesterday. No tomorrow. Just now.

practicing gratitude,

I didn't properly appreciate one damned moment.

Oh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person, she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to have stopped by to read her mind.

How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

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. —Buddhist quote

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —The classic conscious auto-suggestion created by the famous French psychologist and pharmacist (the "father of auto hypnosis"), Émile Coué (1857–1926)

They should move gingerly through their days, as if they had spinal cord injuries.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

You worry about yours, let them worry about theirs, cause I got mine.

I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next.

So many of us resist the truth that self-care is not self-indulgence, but it is a fact that you cannot pour from an empty cup. Or a shattered one.

He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars.

The key is, she said, to disengage yourself from all your ideas about what is "natural.

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

For fast-acting relief from stress, try slowing down.