Quotes About Mindfulness

today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous

Do not force things.... Can you afford to be careless? So then, flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. How else can you carry out your task? It is best to leave everything to work naturally, though this is not easy.21

So the learning of complete people is to return their essential nature to non-being and float their minds in spaciousness.41

Detach from intellectual knowledge ... and return to clarity and calm,

I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on," he said, "and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes' jackets off." Of pleasure and material things he was wary. "I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can't squander it on myself without hurting myself," he said, "and nobody wants to do that.

To excel in any walk of life, any stage of life, you need to have the two traits of focus and concentration to compliment

Wherever the mind dwells apart is itself a distant place.

Try to improve it and you ruin it. Try to hold it and you lose it.

In meditation, you can watch thoughts emerge from emptiness and return back to that emptiness. This leads first to the realization that you are separate from those thoughts, which we normally identify with self.

And so, there is nothing to practice because we are always already enlightened, always already Absence somehow open to the world.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

Bleib' nüchtern und vergiss' nicht, skeptisch zu sein!

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim

Without expectations we live in the present, not the future, and we enjoy each moment as it happens without destroying that enjoyment with the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations.

We go through our lives thinking we are living in the present when in truth we are living in the past and the future.

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow doesn't exist – we need to accept Now.

Awal zaan resto jahan. First yourself, then the universe.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it is sufficient. Meister Eckhart

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

You know, I read once that if you're sad, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. But if you're at peace, you're living in the present.