Quotes About Mindfulness

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — EPICTETUS, Greek philosopher

releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison in which you're both the inmate and the jailer.

If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

We have forgotten how to see anew, the way a child sees, everything brimming with the excitement of discovery. We have labeled and categorized everything, and we have lost the newness of seeing. Practice seeing your relatives, your family, your life partner, and your closest friends as totally new people every day. Put aside yesterday's images and concepts of who they are, and experience them anew, each day.

Practice listening to the sounds of Nature around you, or, if you live in a city, listen to your favorite music played softly enough that you really have to listen to hear it. When thoughts intrude on your listening, just accept it and, without resistance, let them go. You cannot force listening; you can only surrender your resistance to listening!

Earth is heaven, here and now, if you can't accept that reality." "How do I do that?" "Know who you are.

Happiness lies deep within us, in the very core of our being. Happiness does not exist in any external object, but only in us, who are the consciousness that experiences happiness. Though we seem to derive happiness from external objects or experiences, the happiness that we thus enjoy in fact arises from within us.

Practice like you never won; play like you never lost.

Consciously connected breathing is one of the most efficient and accessible means for deliberate re-entry into the physical body.

This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all emotion as "energy in motion," instead of deeming some emotions as threatening and to be avoided, while we find others so seductive that we are driven uncontrollably into activity because of them.

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

The past is gone, the future unknown, so set all your clocks n watches to - Right Now Time - and live your life in the Right Now.

Have you ever thought about doing something then forgot all about it and it never got done? Well, when many folks get to the end of their lives they will say, if only I would have lived a more joyful life but I forgot the reason I was put on earth... Don't become one of them.

Life is a gift... Enjoy the present

Had people become so accustomed to not looking that they were no longer able to see?

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." ? Mark Twain Quote

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.

Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the 'white triangle' we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, 'Thought creates our world and then says, "I didn't do it.

We count our miseries carefully and accept our blessings without much thought." Masters