Quotes About Mindfulness

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.

According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

Ka?dy z nas siedzi okrakiem na granicy mi?dzy w?asnym ?wiatem wewn?trznym a ?wiatem zewn?trznym i niebezpiecznie balansuje. To bardzo niewygodna pozycja i niewielu udaje si? utrzyma? równowag?.

Reject everything, do not look, shut your eyes and change your gaze, awaken another one that almost everyone has, but that few use.

I don't collect anything.

She is happy, because she doesn't have a single thought in her head, a single care, a single expectation or hope. It's a good feeling.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but somehow cheerfulness was always breaking in.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Live Today like you may die tomorrow, Because someday you will be right.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

She does not attach much importance to passing events.' Harriet laughed. 'You have only to let them pass and they lose their importance.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Suzuki Shosan writes in his Roankyo the following passages, some of which have been quoted before: In training in Zen in recent years many people seem to have forgotten that Zen includes a great spirit of bravery and great strength. Therefore, those who train in Zen become tender-hearted, admirable-looking, desireless, and good-natured, but somehow they become divested of the will to respond to any unfavorable stimuli angrily enough to say, "Damn it!

If we analyze the character for zen, we find that it combines the radical shi (to show) with the character tan (single).

by trying to become "no-thought and no-thinking," we create the idea of "no-thought and no-thinking." This is one example of the wrong direction of zazen.

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.