Quotes About Mindfulness

So what I think at this point is that I'm aiming too high, that maybe nothing is too much, to begin with. Maybe for now I should just try, each day, to be a little less than I usually am.

Free yourself of your device, for at least certain hours of the day—or at the very least one hour. Learn to be alone, all alone, without people and without a device that is turned on. Learn to experience the purity of that kind of concentration. Develop focus, learn to focus intently on one thing, uninterrupted, for a long time.

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Foi descendo a escada, evitando despertar os degraus.

Solemn faces do not make sacred hours.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

the fragrant pinewoods on one side of the road; a blueberry patch on the other. It was as though the positions of each plant and each cloud in the sky pierced her consciousness

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Learning to pay attention to how your body feels can offer you rich guidance about your choices and direction in life.

Until one day I realized that regret from the past was keeping me from living well in the present. And it was robbing me of a future.

Time and a hundred daily distractions can slowly turn us away from God before we even realize it's happening.

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

It's times like these when the future is uncertain that we need to live our lives to the full. Don't waste time in useless worry, dear Chana, fretting over what might never happen. Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live.

Knowing our emotions also means being aware of our silent self-talk statements and automatic thoughts accompanying our emotions and moods.

I desperately needed to talk to myself, instead of just listening to myself.

So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

There is only one thing you need do in order to have the body you desire; you have to find ways to be happy.

when the mind shifts back and forth it actually slows down. This shifting back and forth is known as "switchtasking" and there's a high cost to doing this habitually.

Whereas in the past my Christianity was focused on work and effort and striving, I can honestly say that the center from which my spiritual life flows today is the time I set aside daily to be silent in the presence of God, emptying my mind as best I can of words and thoughts, and simply inviting God to fill that open space. Every time I do this I feel as if I fall into a well of love—a love that centers me, calms me, and heals me on deeper levels than my conscious mind understands.

we're inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.

It's almost a mission for some people - to forget.

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.