Quotes About Mindfulness

You live in a beautiful place and you don't act like you know it.

I did not want to live out my life in the strennous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tic-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foilbles...

Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

He had an elaborate, to me, theory that even the simplest of us could raise the quality of our lives by vastly increasing our level of attention.

With all its eyes the creature world beholds the open, while our eyes are turned in ward," said

See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life unseeing. I do that some days...I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.

Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..

Breathe in, breathe out, move on

Regardless of how you feel, don't let your emotions lead you to wrong decisions

Give yourself a break. It's not a race. Celebrate others success. Be a positive force and it will attract others like you. Stop tearing down others and their hard work.

que a gente carece de fingir às vezes que raiva tem, mas raiva mesma nunca se deve de tolerar de ter. Porque, quando se curte raiva de alguém, é a mesma coisa que se autorizar que essa própria pessoa passe durante o tempo governando a ideia e o sentir da gente; o que isso era falta de soberania, e farta bobice, e fato é.

I try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no one I used to know, but then I'm not just crazy about a lot of people. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

We all remember what we need to remember.

but spend the afternoon in total silence, which involves not only not talking but also not reading, not writing, and not smoking. Even on discussion days, this silence is invoked for regular twenty-minute or hour intervals, a regimen described by one student as "invaluable for clearing your mind of personal hangups" and by Miss Baez as "just about the most important thing about the school.

try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no one I used to know, but then I'm not just crazy about a lot of people. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

It takes time to learn to live in the here and now. You have to hang on past the bad times, ... If you do hang on and do not run from your life you discover that you have more control of your thoughts and feelings, and your life, than you believed possible. You learn to quiet your frantic mind, to downgrade your expectations of things and people, find pleasure in solitude, and finally discover who you really are.

Get over yourself - You are not the center of the universe.' 'Understand that life itself (and emotions) are impermanent.

Get over yourself - You're not the only pebble on the beach.' 'Understand that life itself (and emotions) are impermanent.

German theologian named Meister Eckhart taught his followers, "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank you,' that would suffice.

he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later

Garden work clears the mind.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.