Quotes About Mindfulness

I am air and thought and can do nothing.

I had known contentment before, brief snatches of time in which I pursued solitary pleasure: skipping stones or dicing or dreaming. But in truth, it had been less a presence than an absence, a laying aside of dread:

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—

Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush.

Today, my friends, we each have one day less, every one of us. And joy is the only thing that slows the clock.

If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.

Souvent Me Souvient (Remember Me Often)-The Darwin Conspiracy

When your phone chirps or vibrates, don't react. Make it wait till you pick it up. In these small ways I'm making my phone a tool again, something that serves me instead of the other way around.

As Buechner says, we are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, "to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.

when I pull into the driveway at the end of the day. I don't have to leap from the car; I can take a moment. I turn the engine off, sometimes lay my head down on the steering wheel, and just breathe. I try to let go of the day.

After I finish a phone call and before I start something else, I simply pause. When I pull into work in the morning and when I pull into my driveway in the evening, I pause.

My soul just can't do life at the speed of smartphones. But I was asking it to; everybody's asking theirs to.

Like my evening walk.

Turn your phone off at 8:00 p.m. Give yourself some evening time for real things. And banish all technology from your bedroom.

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

So much depends on my actions, so I am seeing fewer people, simplifying my life, organizing it so that I am not always on the edge of irritability.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

You don't have any time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it's me!

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.