Quotes About Mindfulness

You have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

Breathe, we want to tell Avery. Feel yourself breathe. Because that is as much a part of your body as anything else. Avery, we whisper, you are a marvel. And he is. He may never believe it, but he is.

That's the law I've set down for myself--don't disrupt the life you're living in. Leave it as close to the same as you can.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below we allow ourselves to breathe fully. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

I am trying not to think of endings.

Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

I don't think anything can stay, he tells me. Good or bad. So I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

When in doubt, ingest carbs.

I think the important part is to not get caught up in worrying about whether something will stay, and instead enjoy it for the time it's here.

I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.

This is how it feels to hold a pencil in her hand. This is how it feels to fill her lungs with air. This is how it feels to press her back against the chair. This is how it feels to touch her ear. This is what the world sounds like to her. This is what she hears every day.

I have no idea what time it is, what day it is. I have nothing but now. Nothing but here. And that is more than enough.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do. I

The best thing to do is to treat all your days well.

The only way to deal with the future is to make sure the present is okay.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: 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. The

No necesitamos hablar para ser conscientes de la presencia del otro.

doubt lingers around anticipation like bees hover around flowers. [...] the best antidote for doubt is presence.

Focused on nothing, open to everything- it's a state I fall into, where all my senses swap. My voice is blind, my hearing is mute, my sight is deaf. Art is science, mathematics is conversation, and music is something that bleeds. I am so far away that I'm inside myself. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

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

You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.