Quotes About Mindfulness

In any decision making, he'd learned to wait for the peace; it was heedless to make a move without it. There was no time for waiting, and yet waiting was imperative.

Flowers don't solve anything, but they can improve most everything.

He needed to stop messing up his mind with the future and concentrate on what was at hand.

T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?

It said a lot about the choices you made in life when jogging actually lowered your heart rate. By

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.

There the beloved red sweater, bright tangle of necklace, earrings of amber. Each confirming: I chose these, I. But habit is different: it chooses. And we, it's good horse, opening our mouths at even the sight of the bit.

if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

In a room with many windows some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.

The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not the world but the eyes that look… To form the intention of new awareness is already to transform and be transformed.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

One useful way to approach a haiku is to understand each of its parts as pointing toward both world and self. Read this way, haiku remind that a person should not become too fixed in a singular sense of what the self might consist of or know, or where it might reside.

What poems are doing is counterbalancing the mainstream tenor of our culture, which is to do, to be active, to be energetic and to prove one's self… and one of the messages underlying all poems that move us is that we have nothing at all to prove

Here is a soul, accepting nothing.

those who follow their own breath will come to know both Being's nature and their own.

There is no dwelling in past, present or future and one is able to see the world without any pre-conceptions.

The more we cling to the belief in a self, the more pain and alienation we feel.

Enlightenment is the total sense of freedom that comes from letting go of the concept of being an individual "self".