Quotes About Mindfulness

My mother, Myrtle, once wrote...I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing love for all humanity...we all become better people just by trying to ban negativity from our thoughts and our lives.

Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

You will never find love until you stop looking.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

Set your pace to a stroll. Stop whenever you want. Interrupt, jump back and forth, I won't mind. This book should be as easy as laughter. It is stuffed with small things to take away. Please help yourself.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

Ultimately, you will learn to consult your greater resources so easily and quickly that you will be able to do so as quickly as an eye blink in the middle of a conversation, with no one else noticing.

If you take short breaths, you will tend to have short bursts of attention and to speak in short sentences. Deep, full breaths will enable you to speak in longer, more complex sentences and to form deeper thoughts. Underwater swimming is the best remedy for over-short breath.

Pause before making your next big decision. Look around and notice the slight irregularities of the ceiling, the texture of brick underfoot, the feel of your knee bending and straightening, and the slight shifts of sensation in your shoulders, stomach, neck, and face. You can't really explain why, but when you widen your neurological contact with the world in this way you feel stronger, wiser, and more creative—and you choose more wisely.

Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time…rather, it's about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there.

All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.

las personas de éxito se caracterizan tanto por su intensa concentración como por sus capacidades.

As the poet W. H. Auden put it, "Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

One crucial fact often gets overlooked in laments about the electronic assault on your ability to focus: your machines are not in charge of what you attend to—you are. When they prove distracting, you have only to turn them off.

Cada puesta en marcha requiere un esfuerzo, pues tienes que volver a revisar tu memoria. La multitarea tiene un precio, y a

La capacidad de dirigir el pensamiento a voluntad te proporciona un gran poder, porque te ayuda a evitar las emociones negativas cuando aparecen».

Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

To save energy, do not go out lookin' for trouble; chances are, it will find you soon enough.

Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings.

Sometimes we waste too much time to think about someone who doesn't even think about us for a second.