Quotes About Mindfulness

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed." "Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.

The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.

What the world thinks of me is none of my business.

Using the excuse of a busy life, I downshifted my conversations with God to asking for favors on the run.

I am as the flower that gives scent to the morning air. It does not concern itself with who is passing by … Until

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

Don't talk too fast, you will trip on your words.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

If you are a serious and analytical parent, it is easy to go right past what went well to what you want to be better. Remind yourself to pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments and celebrate each success, no matter how small it might be. Don't let one problem rob you of the joy of the good moments.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. G. MACDONALD.

You had better make up your mind to accept what you cannot alter. You can live a beautiful life in the midst of your present circumstances.

Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us and grants us permission to fumble, and not know, and fail, and also to take pleasure in the small triumphs of our days.

The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.