Quotes About Mindfulness

You talked to us about what kind of fifth-graders we wanted to be this year. How it was all in our choices, every minute of our days. How even grownups like you had to think about it sometimes, to be the person they wanted to be.

I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood

Going too fast for myself I missed more than I think I can remember almost everything it seems sometimes and yet there are chances that come back that I did not notice when they stood where I could have reached out and touched them

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

CANDY: I'll be in a world of pain that no amount of worrying ahead of time will prepare me for. Why suffer in preparation for suffering?

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Don't spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Keep in mind that other people's actions can never 'make' you feel any certain way. Feelings are your warning indicators.

Use anger as a wake-up call to unmet needs.