Quotes About Mindfulness

Not many people know how to be satisfied.

The sweetness of doing nothing.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

the beauty of doing nothing

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

We are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

Gratitude, always. Always, gratitude.

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. a

The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out.

Keep cultivating gratitude.

Hush," she said. "I'm thinking at the top of my lungs.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

You learn to smile even in you liver?' 'Even in my lire, Ketut. Big smile in my liver.

Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart...

sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them. a

My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).