Quotes About Mindfulness

But he also knew praying was more to steady the person than inform the deity.

We choose our thoughts. We choose our perceptions. We choose our attitudes

It's too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It's revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful." Chapter 14 · Page 122 · Location 2188

Are you enjoying your suffering? You must be, to hold on to it so tightly.

And yet,' Gamache continued in a pleasant voice, 'isn't that what's often taught in meditation? Not the absence of emotion, or swallowing them, but not allowing them to run the show?

You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now." "Surrender to reality," he said with a small grin and, grabbing a tissue, he rubbed his eyes. It was one of Hardye Moel's favorite sayings. "Yes. Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does.

Olivier looked at him blankly. But the Chief Inspector had seen that look before. It was, in fact, almost impossible to look blank. Unless the person wanted to. A blank face to the Chief Inspector meant a frantic mind.

He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is.

When I miss things or let them pass they gather in a heap then rise up and take a life. So, I try not to.

Do you know the sums that I do?" "I count my blessings.

Don't believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year.

Happy people didn't drink themselves to sleep every night.

Everyone we meet, every word we speak, every action taken or not taken lives in our longhouse. With us. Always. Never to be expelled or locked away.

Most unhappiness comes from not being able to sit quietly in a room." "Pascal,

That we could forget the good and only remember the

You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now.

To enjoy a freedom they no longer took for granted.

Surrender to reality,

Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does. And don't take it all on yourself.

One was grey, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather to be corageous, and patient, and kind. The other, the black one, wanted his grandfather to be fearful and cruel. this upset the boy and he thought aboutit for a few days the returned to his grandfather. He asked, "Grandfather, which of the wolves will win?" ... "The one I feed

A man naturally given to action, Jean-Guy had come late to the value of pausing. "It is solved by walking," Gamache had often said. In the middle of a stressful case, the Chief would leave his office, and instead of doing something, he'd go for a walk.

You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now." "Surrender to reality,

Don't believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year. At first the students in the class he taught laughed. It sounded clever but silly. Little by little most got it. And those who didn't did not progress further. That phrase was as powerful as any weapon they'd be handed.

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.