Quotes About Mindfulness

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

Wenn die Menschen ihren Lebensweg beschreiten, fängt es immer dann an schiefzulaufen, sobald sie den Teil ihrer selbst vernachlässigen, der ihren Geist nährt. Ohne diese Nahrung stirbt der Geist, und es ist Teil unserer Verantwortung für uns selbst, das nicht zuzulassen.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.

Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer.

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, "to walk against the wind for pleasure.

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.