Quotes About Mindfulness

He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want any pitch in particular. But the best way, he said -- which sounds almost the same, but is really very different -- is to want the very pitch you're gonna get. Including the one you can handle. But also the one that's gonna strike you out looking. And even the one that's maybe gonna bounce off your head.

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with temptation is not to grit our teeth and make up our minds that we will not do a certain thing. The key is to fill our minds with other things.

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions steal from us the moments of the now.

Ya, saya memiliki hidup yang baik, tetapi apakah saya benar-benar meluangkan waktu untuk hidup?

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. But then there are moments like this, when the aliveness of life is crystalline, palpable, undeniable. It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.

Choose your actions wisely.

I am trying not to think of what will happen next. I am trying not to think of endings.

There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.

Why do you want to put more smoke inside of you?

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

I think that this might be the easiest way to live — just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things