Quotes About Mindfulness

Sit up to slow down,

When asked to perform a miracle, a Zen master responded: "My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

55. See as for the first time a beauteous person as an ordinary object.

Self-pity is an indulgence for artists and noblemen. Don't spend any more time with it than you must. Hear what it says, learn from it if you can, then move on.

Once, as a Jedi, he had meditated to find peace. Now he meditated to sharpen the edges of his anger.

I always get very calm with baseball.

conscientia,

When I was a kid, "selfish" was an insult in my home. It was something only "bad" people indulged in. But I learned that it was only when I started taking care of myself that I was really able to care for others.

Mindfulness is awareness without judgment. As mindfulness researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn notes, mindfulness is "the ability to be aware of your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and actions—in the present moment—without judging or criticizing yourself or your experience" (2005).

take your life back Don't delay your own happiness. Grab it right now. There are many things you can do today to take your life back. Take some time off to reflect.

Sometime I think; and sometime I am.

There are pigeonholes in the brain with labels on them such as: To be looked into when I feel like it; Never to be thought of; Useless to follow up; Contents as yet unexamined; A blind alley; A rich vein, but exploitable only in another existence; Urgent; Dangerous; A hard nut to crack; Impossible; Discarded; Put in storage; None of my business; In my line; A teaser…and so forth.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.1 RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The ART of energy management Awareness, Reward and Training.

Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit—the pleasure of simply being.

When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope. Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.

There is little doubt that those who get the most from life are those who look for the wonder in even the smallest things they do. Cultivate this skill and you'll find peace and satisfaction as well.

Recognise the difference between having and living.

Wednesday: Pray for Strangers You See throughout This Day One of the elders said: Just as a bee, wherever she goes, makes honey, so a monk, wherever he goes, if he goes to do the will of God, can always produce the spiritual sweetness of good works.5

can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Monday: Cover Your Mirrors for a Whole Morning

Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.