Quotes About Mindfulness

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

We determine how much we will allow something to make us unhappy. That we can determine our emotional response to events is hard for many people to acknowledge. Most people think that events make them unhappy, that their happiness level is essentially dictated by what happens to them. But this is untrue.

That's the great question: Who sees the miracles of daily life? And the answer is: Whoever chooses to see.

happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

Gratitude must be constantly fed (unlike resentment, which lives on naturally), and physical reminders are essential.

In life, we see evidence of leaky containers all the time. They are the hard-charging, aggressive personalities who keep pushing themselves for the bigger paycheck at the expense of health, family, relationships and peace of mind. By the time they realize the frantic rush does not work, their container of life is already broken into pieces. By then, it is too late.

Keeping one's patience is really a question of remembering one's place in the universe.

Please go out and find a stone that appeals to you on some level. It can be beautiful or ugly. It shouldn't be a pebble, nor should it be a boulder. Find a stone with some weight to it. It should be small enough to carry in the palm of your hand and large enough that you won't lose it. Note in your journal exactly where you found the stone and what it was about the stone that appealed to you. Welcome. You have begun to walk the Fourfold Path.

He made a powerful distinction between healing and curing: Curing involves the resolution of the illness but was not always possible. Healing, he said, was coming to wholeness and could happen whether or not the illness was curable.

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

He had learned early on the trick of living separately in a crowd, private in his mind when his body could not be. But he was born a mountain-dweller, and had learned early, too, the enchantment of solitude, and the healing of quiet places.

I mean to take my time about it, aye?

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

day's work, I drifted into sleep at once, soothed

took a small sip

No queríamos pensar, ¿sabes? Y es fácil no hacerlo. Durante un tiempo.

Accept what there is; don't think about what there is not.

Ifs" hover in the air above your head all the time when you're doing surgery, like a cloud of gnats. For the most part, though, they keep a respectful distance, only buzzing dimly in the background. Done.

she became aware that

You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.

I don't even take aspirin.

I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

I don't try to attach myself to technology so much. I'm on my phone a lot, though, but in the off season, I try to get away from it as much as I can.