Quotes About Mindfulness

There is a great beauty in little things.

Unless you have a very good reason, never wake up anybody or anything! Let the sleeper sleep in peace.

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

If you want to be healthy and live to one hundred, do qigong.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," it will be enough.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough.

If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'thank you,' that will be enough. ~ Meister Eckhart

Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.

If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.

If you hold to God, then he will give you goodness. If you seek God, then you will find both God and all goodness. Indeed, if you trod on a stone while in this state of mind, it would be a more godly act than if you were to receive the body of our Lord while being concerned only for yourself and having a less detached attitude of mind.

Dac? singura rug?ciune pe care ai spune-o ar fi Mul?umesc, ar fi de ajuns.

The past is history, the future's a mystery. If you've got a foot in each, you're pissing on today.

Always living for a better tomorrow or running from a numbing past, we inhabit this present moment like a shabby motel on the way to somewhere else. In doing this, we cheapen and degrade our only possession, which is simply this moment and right here and now. If pressed, we really couldn't say where it is that we're in such a rush to get to.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

when we stop knowing how to use our hands to meet our most basic needs—we become estranged from nature, from the value and meaning of things, and from the empathy that we need to care for one another and our world.

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode.

You can't go around feeling too much.

Si cierras los ojos consigues controlar tu propia oscuridad.