Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't hold your breath any longer: Perfect moments happen every day

Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?

A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."—As A Man Thinketh

Work each day on your thoughts rather than concentrating on your behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings that you have and ultimately your actions as well.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

Listen to yourself when you talk; you might be surprised at what you hear.

I haven't made time for pity or blame or even resentment. All of those things take too much energy. I just don't have it to spare.

Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.

What I learnt from that was that the exhaustion that pain brings arises because we resist it. The thing is to learn to go with the pain, to ride it.

Most people were oblivious to the luck already bestowed upon them. I'd certainly been guilty of it.

Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider

So much dissatisfaction comes from focusing on what we don't have that the simple exercise of acknowledging and valuing what we do have can transform our outlook.

Learn to choose quality of life over standard of living.

To let go of clutter, then, is not dearth (lack); it's lightening up and opening up space for something new to happen

is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

The key is remembering that anything you buy and don't use, anything you throw away, anything you consume and don't enjoy is money down the drain, wasting your life energy and wasting the finite resources of the planet. Any waste of your life energy means more hours lost to the rat race, making a dying. Frugality is the user-friendly and earth-friendly lifestyle.

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

This is what breath meditation is about: watching your breath, straying off, realizing it, and gently returning. Over and over again. Like I said, meditation is a practice.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

Your experience of life is determined by where you focus your attention. If you focus on content, i.e., the thoughts, images, and feelings arising right now, your attention is lost in a world of judging things as good, bad, or neutral—a real roller-coaster ride.

Tout le mal vient de ce que l'on pense, ou plutôt de ce qu'il y a en vous un être qui pense à votre insu puis tout à coup émet dans le silence du cerveau un petite phrase acide, insupportable, après laquelle on ne peut plus vivre comme auparavant