Quotes About Mindfulness

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

3) Take a vacation from your grievances. (4) The regularity of it isn't totally worthless.

To complain about the rain, or lack of it, shows a mind out of tune with nature. Align with nature, and, rain or shine, the weather is always welcome.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

Some cooks prepare their meals and leave a big mess for later, but the way of zen is to clean as you go.

The Buddha's lesson: Do not wait for the moment of imminent death to taste life's sweetness. Savor it now. Every breath we take is precious. Treat it as such, and all of life becomes a luscious dessert.

Zen is nothing more than adhering to such simple tasks, with full attention.

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

My publisher conducted a website poll, and of the 678 respondents only 23 felt satisfied with the time they were spending in prayer. That

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.