Quotes About Mindfulness

without concentration, a complex activity breaks down into chaos.

Even the approach of death itself can serve to create harmony in consciousness, rather than despair.

It is a circuitous path that begins with achieving control over the contents of our consciousness.

By learning to concentrate, a person acquires control over psychic energy, the basic fuel upon which all thinking depends.

You can drive a car all your life without knowing how the engine works, because the goal of driving is to get from one place to the next, regardless how it's done. But to live without understanding how we think, why we feel the way we feel, what directs our actions is to miss what is most important in life, which is the experience itself.

The shape and content of life depend on how attention has been used.

the secret to a happy life is to learn to get flow from as many of the things we have to do as possible.

One of the values in walking to work is mental meandering. Or if driving, not to have the car radio on. Now I don't think of myself as necessarily especially creative, but this creativity has to be a profoundly wasteful process. And that mental meandering, mind wandering and so on, is an essential process.

It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life.

When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.

Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it's presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

She counted absent-mindedly on her

Inhale deeply without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that all the tension in your body is breathed out with your exhalation. • Inhale deeply without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that your body becomes very relaxed.

Inhale deeply one more time without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that your body and mind become very relaxed.

We won't be able to eliminate the drama in our lives or escape all the crazies. But we can actually learn to live responsively instead of reactively, being positive when others are negative.

So What Would Satan Do? 1. He would keep us distracted.

People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them the keys.

It's inappropriate to have debilitating anger over events we can't control.

We have become human "doings" rather than human "beings.