Quotes About Mindfulness

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Humility is freedom from your own driven ego.

EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Loving yourself is good for your health.

Sometimes when I am feeling down, I am my own worst enemy. Let me be my friend.

Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.

I really needed to get around to setting that one-second delay on my mouth.

If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse

Words for Introverts to Live By Be playful. Take breaks. Appreciate your inside world. Be authentic. Enjoy curiosity.

Feelings are everywhere—be gentle. —J. Masai

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

time spent sharpening a pencil is never wasted",

a remarkably gentle and insightful monk, Theophan, who says, "You must descend from your head to your heart. At present your thoughts of God are in your head. And God Himself is, as it were, outside you, and so your prayer and other spiritual exercises remain exterior. Whilst you are still in your head, thoughts will not easily be subdued but will always be whirling about, like snow in winter or clouds of mosquitoes in the summer.

When you surrender to apprehension, or worry, or nerves, you effectively place a filter over your senses and are no longer able to see what's right in front of you.

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.