Quotes About Mindfulness

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear, Tom. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

The silence of not needing to talk. Of just being together, of together-being. The way you could be happily silent with yourself.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm

Depression is also . . . Smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but—if that is the metaphor—you are the sky.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

Your life will have 30,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.

But because of that luck, we need to cherish this life we have. And if we can not only feel lucky but also other things—calm, happy, healthy—then why not? Why not know what the world can do to us? Because that knowledge can help us.

Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

so every present moment is paying for a future one.

In T.S. Eliot's phrase from his Four Quartets, I was 'distracted from distraction by distraction'.

we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine, and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?

You don't punish anyone other than yourself by keeping hate inside you.

Self-forgiveness makes the world better. You don't become a good person by believing you are a bad one.

Don't believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or up and down. At your lowest and at your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.

Letters to a Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke Poems—Emily Dickinson Henry David Thoreau's journal When Things Fall Apart—Pema Chödrön The House at Pooh Corner—A. A. Milne Bird by Bird—Anne Lamott Meditations—Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching—Laozi Serious Concerns—Wendy Cope Dream Work—Mary Oliver

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las cosas pequeñas. No lo olvides nunca»

mental well-being counts as much as physical well-being—indeed, that it is part of physical well-being.

As Montaigne put it, "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.