Quotes About Mindfulness

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it.

May I ask a question? Without the books of symbols, how do you read it?" "I just make my mind go clear and then it's sort of like looking down into water. You got to let your eyes find the right level, because that's the only one that's in focus. Something like that," she said.

If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make themselves find that really important, they'd be safe.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes.

Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

David Foster Wallace

It is unimaginably hard to do this—to live consciously, adultly, day in and day out.

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

David Foster Wallace

Los científicos coinciden en que tan solo alcanzamos el diez por ciento de nuestro potencial humano. En cambio, cuando establecemos el centro de nuestras actividades en el silencio, nuestro potencial se vuelve ilimitado.

Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.

Richard Rohr reminds us that "we cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness.

Do not think of tomorrow. Enjoy the now, for it is all any of us ever have.

I close my eyes and feel it running down my skin and for a while I can forget the noise in my head.

Hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies. It all sounds very good, but it's a lot easier to say it than to do it.

I promise myself to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind … to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true … to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.")

the only thing to do was not worry about it at all, and have the best damn time you could while you were around. Of course, being a leader helped. You were always too busy bringing in air and artillery, moving your people and shepherding your herd, to take time to focus in on yourself, on where you might be in a moment's time.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.