Quotes About Mindfulness

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

We must always seek the good which is hidden in everything.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

If you can remember, worry, or tie your shoe, you can succeed with Psycho-Cybernetics!

I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

from impulsive and ill-considered actions; the other is

It would have been very bad," he said, "but I never allow my mind to think in that way.

The underlying emotional problem has the same common denominator in every patient. This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

Set aside a period of 30 minutes each day when you can be alone and undisturbed. Relax and make yourself as comfortable as possible. Now close your eyes and exercise your imagination.

This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the "jitters." The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous—pull yourself up short and say, "What is there here and now that I should respond to? That I can do something about?

I then suggested that he memorize a saying of Epictetus, which has always been a favorite of mine: "Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Kad ljudi prona?u lepu misao, trebalo bi da je ?uvaju pod staklom, da se ne isprlja.

Ništa ?ovjeku nije važnije od svog mira i od sre?e koju sâm stvori. Zato je treba ?uvati, tu svoju sre?u, opkoliti je šan?evima, i nikome ne dozvoliti da je ugrozi.

Ne može se živjeti samo od pucanja i strahovanja, ?ovjek mora i da do?e sebi, da se provjetri, da se provede, da se izbjesni; vidio si kako u lokomotivi puštaju paru da ne eksplodira, e tako ti je i kod ?ovjeka.

Nothing is worth your peace of mind, not even your own ego.