Quotes About Mindfulness

a good man will welcome "every experience the looms of fate may weave for him."3

Negative visualization is therefore a wonderful way to regain our appreciation of life and with it our capacity for joy. T

Marcus Aurelius approvingly quotes this advice.

When the number of options available is limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and get on with life. To behave otherwise

the regular practice of negative visualization has the effect of transforming Stoics into full-blown optimists.

You will realize that inasmuch as the past and present cannot be changed, it is pointless to wish they could be different. You will do your best to accept the past, whatever it might have been, and to embrace the present, whatever it might be.

This might sound a bit silly, but to someone who has not lost his capacity for joy, the world is a wonderful place. To such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is just a glass, and it is half empty to boot.

easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.

Whenever you undertake an activity in which public failure is a possibility, you are likely to experience butterflies in your stomach. I mentioned above that since becoming a stoic, I have become a collector of insults. I have also become a collector of butterflies.

In the words of Epicurus, "Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little.

In the words of Epicurus, "Nothing satisfies the man who is not satisfied with a little."2

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. "It must be up there somewhere on the horizon," we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. 'It must be up there somewhere on the horizon,' we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

We would be better to focus more on acts and less on looks. Hedging puts us into the landscape intimately. It makes us pay attention. When we pay attention, we are repaid in many ways.

William Buhlman

William Buhlman

Become aware that creation in your life occurs only in the present moment.

Sending love to a manifestation of fear will cause it to dissipate and disappear.

We must conquer our personal addictions and attachments, for these are the anchors that hold us to the density of form and matter.

William Buhlman

operate on automatic and never reflect on our inner dialogue.

Send love to your fears