Quotes About Mindfulness

My daily choices create my perfect health.

Disability of the body does not mean disability of the heart and mind.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

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Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

Now is now. There is nothing but now... This, right here, is all there is.

Now is now... There is nothing but now and I try to hold on to that. The past is gone, the future hasn't happened yet. This, right here, is all there is.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.

?uvajte se divnih dana. Loše stvari se dešavaju baš u tim divnim danima. Možda je to zbog ?injenice da uvek kada ste sre?ni postajete nesre?ni. ?uvajte se zacrtanih planova. Vaša pažnja je usresre?ena na plan, i to je trenutak kada stvari po?inju da se dešavaju van vašeg vidokruga.

Anger should be a weapon to be used discriminately, not a weakness and a loss of control.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)

Seneca may have put it best two thousand years ago: "To be everywhere is to be nowhere."51

Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this: Hot: Cold Others used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this: Hot: C The people who used the cards with the missing letters performed much better in a subsequent test measuring how well they remembered the word pairs. Simply forcing their minds to fill in a blank, to act rather than observe, led to stronger retention of information.

When, in an 1892 lecture before a group of teachers, William James declared that "the art of remembering is the art of thinking," he was stating the obvious.14 Now, his words seem old-fashioned. Not only has memory lost its divinity; it's well on its way to losing its humanness. Mnemosyne has become a machine.

Sam Anderson, "In Defense of Distraction," New York, May 25, 2009.

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Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think," said the novelist David Foster Wallace in a commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.