Quotes About Mindfulness

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.

When I focus on me, I increase my anxiety.

However little you think you need to do, there's less you need to do.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

I can't make myself be happy but I can always make myself not be miserable. - Dr. Lou Welcome

or works along its rim with busy fingers like a string of prayer beads.

This again was the curious thing about Ambrosio, his willingness to live fully inside the moment, whatever its virtue or folly, without regard for the future.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

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Don't say anything unless you can improve on the silence.

Every day may not be good,' he said, 'but there is something good in every day.

Awareness is the ultimate sacred wonder.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Siempre es mejor luchar en sólo una batalla a la vez. De esa forma, siempre ganas" -Josh Newman

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

As above in consciousness, so below in matter

Der ideale Ort ist immer da, wo ich gerade bin. Ich spüre kein mich aufzehrendes Verlangen, Indien zu bereisen. Auch in die Mongolei gehe ich nicht, da wird einem nur das Pferd gestohlen.

The goal of the practice is not happiness... the goal of the practice is freedom.

Most of us live in a state of perpetual "could be better." We're so used to having control over every little parameter of our lives that we cannot focus on what's going right, only on what's going wrong. That's the viewpoint we always seem to be coming from, and it means that we are perpetually unsatisfied, unhappy, disappointed, and ungrateful.

Expect nothing and appreciate the value of everything; this is the true lesson of the Rule of Acceptance.

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.