Quotes About Mindfulness

One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.

It's important not to get lost among the trees and forget about the amazing, beautiful forest you're planting.

Dans la vie y'a pas de grands, y'a pas de petits. La bonne longueur pour les jambes, c'est quand les pieds touchent par terre. In life, there are no tall or short people. The right length for a person's legs is when their feet touch the ground.

it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

A day without The Philosophy is a day without myself.

Everything matters and nothing matters.

Trying not to lose myself within this mission was and is and always will be the most difficult of balances.

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.

Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

holding to rage is like holding a piece of glowing coal. It burns only him.

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

This being human is a guest-house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out

Meditation also appears to slow age-related degeneration in our brains. Neurologist Eileen Luders at UCLA looked at the link between age and the volume of the brain's white matter, which typically shrinks with age. She reported that this decrease was less prominent in meditators as compared to non-meditators. On average, the brains of long-term practitioners appeared to be seven and a half years younger at the age of fifty than the brains of non-meditators.

In late life, we can pose this question internally no matter what activity we are engaged in, whether we are quietly drinking a cup of tea, sitting in a noisy meeting, cooking a festive family dinner, or running a marathon. Our identity or self-sense at any moment can be rooted in ego or rooted in soul. It's not what we're doing but how we're doing—our state of mind—that makes the difference.