Quotes About Mindfulness

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. —Goethe

it's not only a matter of controlling the motorcycle you're riding but also controlling the situation around you.

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

Enjoy every sandwich.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

David Foster Wallace: Now, if I don't develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure unalloyed pleasure, and allow myself to go out and, you know, grocery shop and pay the rent? I don't know about you, but I'm gonna have to leave the

Forget calories. Focus on quality. Let your body do the rest.

Don't fight the darkness. Don't even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes.

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more!

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.