Quotes About Mindfulness

In order to slip from beneath the crushing weight of future thoughts, I adopted a technique of focusing solely on the moment I was living. In itself, removed from the time line that stretched forward and backward from the present, no single moment was that bad.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

None of us hears properly", he went on. "Every one of us is tied up in our inner noise.

He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important. All you need to do is take your life seriously. To create it intentionally. To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time

Socrates may have concluded that his most valuable possession was his leisure. "Beware the barrenness of a busy life" is a quote commonly attributed to him.

the true solitary does not seek himself, but loses himself.

Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.

Jefferies wrote, in his autobiography The Story of My Heart, that the type of life celebrated by society, one of hard work and unceasing chores and constant routine, does nothing but "build a wall about the mind.

People are to be taken in very small doses," wrote Emerson. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated—the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

No sound came out, yet she was fully awake. Not a syllable, not a phrase.

If you're doing something you have to concentrate on you can't also be thinking about doing it, and if you're thinking about doing it then you can't actually be doing it. Yes?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen