Quotes About Mindfulness

Normally, words are sent from the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to check them, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they're nicely wrapped, before you bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air. But when you're caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can fall down on the job.

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

We forget that we all take life to live and that eating is a sacrament.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition.

Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

It makes no sense to hurry up, and so mess up, what I am doing now in order to get started on what I plan to do next. Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Don't strive for love, be it.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

The only thing you have 100% control over is you.

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment.

I think as a writer you always have to be 'present' in what you write.

Totul se redusese la a bea ast?zi, pentru c? s-ar putea s? nu mai existe ziua de mâine.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

My philosophy is this: Do not live for the day – that would be materialistic – but treasure the day. Most of us live on the skin, on the surface, without realising how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.