Quotes About Mindfulness

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books....

Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Be attached to nothing and open to everything.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

The scientific literature shows that hunger, anger, loneliness, tiredness, pain, and stress are common "preconditions for poor decision making." So Shubin Stein uses an acronym, HALT-PS, as a reminder to pause when those factors might be impairing his judgment and postpone important decisions until he's in a state in which his brain is more likely to function well.* This is our seventh technique for reducing avoidable stupidity.

There are four things that we know improve brain health and brain function," says Shubin Stein. "Meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition.

Blaise Pascal: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Fear not what you can suffer, only be careful for what you {do} suffer.

The secret of life is paying absolute attention to what is going on. The enemy of life is distraction. If you're not present in the present, where the hell are you? Word of Wisdom No. 1.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

El Buda examinó el fenómeno del ser humano examinando su propia naturaleza. Dejando a un lado toda idea preconcebida, exploró la realidad interior y descubrió que cada ser es un compuesto de cinco procesos, cuatro de ellos mentales y uno físico.

según el Dhamma, la ley de la naturaleza, la más importante es la acción mental. Los actos físicos o verbales asumen un significado totalmente distinto, dependiendo de la intención con la que estén hechos.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner -- and then to thinking!

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

The most important investment ability of all is emotional discipline.

Viktor E. Frankl] joked that in contrast to Freud's and Adler's "depth psychology," which emphasizes delving into an individual's past and his or her unconscious instincts and desires, he practiced "height psychology," which focuses on a person's future and his or her conscious decisions and actions...His goal was to provoke people into realizing that they could and should exercise their capacity for choice to achieve their own goals.