Quotes About Mindfulness

The uneventful day is a precious gift.

The fact that people were attentive to his body does not compensate for their ignoring his being.

The minutes we spend watching the waves don't count against our life spans

Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

What is worry but fear of what the future holds? Baby Mol lives completely in the present and is spared all worry.

You can confide in quiet people. They make way for one's thoughts.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

All I've been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.

I am not obsessing. I am just sitting here perforating this post-it with a push-pin.

Annie Dillard once wrote, "How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing." I think about this a lot when I'm planning my day and what sort of pleasure I might suck out of its marrow during these tumultuous times of constant upheaval and war. Sometimes that means noticing even the most mundane of tasks in order to know we are alive, that we are living.

What is it about noticing beauty that brings you out of yourself and returns you to yourself?

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

It seemed as if a glaze had been washed from my senses, brightening the sound of the traffic up ahead on the avenue, separating the bus's pneumatic brakes from the bass chug of the delivery-truck engines and the whir and bump of gliding taxis.

The ways we miss our lives is life', Randall Jarrell quoted by A.P.

Listen to the sound inside.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Become What You Eat

We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don't experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don't get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don't become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become.

21Finally, don't pay attention to everything that is said, so that you may not hear your slave reviling you; 22for well you remember* the many times that you yourself have reviled others.

Not till the bad feelings come out can the good ones come in.

By being kind to ourselves, we teach our children to be kind to themselves.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

I'm in the reservation of my mind.