Quotes About Mindfulness

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

The brain is evolutionarily hard-wired to do its best daydreaming only when it senses that it is safe to do so—when, in short, it is relaxed. In Kounios's words, "The relaxation phase is crucial.5 That's why so many insights happen during warm showers." Or during Sunday afternoon walks on Glasgow Green, when the idea of a separate condenser seems to have excited the aSTG in the skull of James Watt. Eureka indeed.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks.

Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks. For them, even an instant's preoccupation could be fatal. Both body and mind must be free to flow and to respond to whatever the situation demands.

We must be careful not to create our own fetters or our own inflexibility.

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!