Quotes About Mindfulness

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

I realised I had an issue with my mobile phone use when a friend started explaining the virtues of the Fast 800 diet and, while still engaged in the conversation, I pulled out my phone and ordered the book before they had finished their sentence.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.

There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have

Frankl's quote pops into my mind again. He's making space between stimulus and response in order to choose his freedom.

Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions. Being silent is like emptying the trash. When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface.

Once we know what we're feeling, we can make choices about where we want to go with them.

Reacting vs. responding = reflexive vs. chosen. We can choose our response, Frankl was saying, even under the specter of death.

There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained.

They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them because they hold important clues.

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able to. A lot will be left dangling if we wait too long.

Whereas in their younger years, people often come to therapy to understand why their parents won't act in ways they wish, later on, people come to figure out how to manage what is. And so my question about my mother has cone from "Why can't she change?" to "Why can't I?

if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place,

You seem like you're enjoying the experience of suffering, so I thought I'd help you out with that." "What?" "There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain - everyone feels pain at times - but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering."p62