Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.

to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all.

Don't run I never liked fast food

You have to learn how to listen before you will hear.

Meditate?" I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my side to look at him. "Excuse me, but the closest I ever got to having a spiritual awakening was dating a yoga instructor. Once.

I noticed, but I didn't pay attention.

And lowering your blood pressure by deep breathing or meditation—or even a healthy swearing session inside your closed car—has fewer side effects than any pill.

For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?

What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

Sleeping is time not spent living.

Self love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self neglect.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute.

The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simple, self-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily.

This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger.

Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

to waste energy and time fanning the flames of anger

Patience, steadiness, and hope are healthier than anger;