Quotes About Mindfulness

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

The unpardonable sin, in Campbell's book, was the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake.

doing nothing often leads to the very best of something

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

Blue, life is full of horrible things. One must find something that makes one happy and stick to it.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...

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

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do, Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and then you go and do it.

Hallo, Pooh," said Rabbit. "Hallo, Rabbit," said Pooh dreamily. "Did you make that song up?" "Well, I sort of made it up," said Pooh. "It isn't Brain," he went on humbly, "because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes." "Ah!" said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.

But it isn't Easy,' said Pooh to himself.... 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you . And all you can do is to go where they can find you. He waited hopefully... [...] 'So there it is,' said Pooh, when he had sung this to himself three times. 'It's come different from what I thought it would, but it's come.

Contemplation is not compatible with the complications and burdens of an excessively comfortable life.

the system goes on . . . separating the head from the heart.

But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.