Quotes About Mindfulness

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

A closed mouth catches no flies.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like "shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Quality requires your Presence.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I keep telling myself sensible things, but I never seem to listen!