Quotes About Mindfulness

Lao Tzu said, "In Tao, you should reduce something every day.

Wu Wei is a delight in knowing that everything will be all right. It is not refusing to do anything, it is refusing to do insignificant things. Wu Wei is efficiency. It is the precondition of Wu Bu Wei. Wu Wei requires giving up secondary matters and aiming for the key matters. You can only Wu Bu Wei because you Wu Wei. The modern meets the ancient. Wu Wei is the secret of health. Only if you abandon anxiety can you do anything with a healthy mind and body.

The best way to deal with stress at work is to go for a forest bath. I go for shinrin-yoku every lunchtime. You don't need a forest; any small green space will do. Leave your cup of coffee and your phone behind and just walk slowly. You don't need to exercise, you just need to open your senses to nature. It will improve your mood, reduce tension and anxiety, and help you focus and concentrate for the rest of the day.

Czy zwróci?e? kiedy? uwag?, jak przyjemnie chodzi si? boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze si? to tylko z ulgi po zdj?ciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz pod?o?a bosymi stopami, twój organizm otrzymuj? dawk? pot??nych leczniczych elektronów.

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

You have to know that your real home is within.

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle—a problem just stresses me out.

No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.

Let others consume their efforts in pointless trifles. Let others drain their energy in futile worries.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

Big Announcement! There Are Different Ways of Talking to Worry

the more you fight the uncomfortable sensations directly, the stronger they seem to grow. The more you run from panic, the faster it seems to chase you. The more you avoid panic-provoking situations, the more panic controls your life. If we place ourselves on guard, waiting and watching for the next signs of trouble, we are inviting panic to return sooner. How? By establishing a special relationship with panic, a relationship of opposites.

When you hear yourself say, "I'm dizzy; I could faint!" say something like, "That's a good, anxiety-provoking thought. I want that thought, too." Don't do anything with the thought. Don't embellish it or encourage it. Don't talk yourself out of it. Notice it and accept it as an expected fearful thought in such a situation. Then wait for the next threatening thought or feeling.

Remember that you win over panic by not resisting. Be patient and you will eventually get a spontaneous insight. It might sound like this: "Hey! Four out of the last twelve times when I said, 'I can handle this; I want this,' and really meant it, my anxiety just faded away. Another five times I stayed anxious, but I handled it fine. It didn't leave, and I didn't freak out. Maybe it really is all about how I respond. Cool.

You purposely choose to feel uncomfortable and uncertain within your threatening situations: "I want this." • You choose to linger with your anxiety and uncertainty instead of escaping. • You notice your negative and fearful thoughts without getting caught up in them. You accept them without getting rid of them.

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.

Most of us, however, live fractured lives. We might be here, but our minds are over there; our bodies are in the present, but our minds are in the past or the future. We need to give our undivided attention to the present because this is when life is happening—right here and right now. Here and now is the only place and time we can meet each other and meet God.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.