Quotes About Mindfulness

I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I'm concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be

I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.

I long for some rest, free from thought.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.

I have to have time to think. Why does time run on while a man thinks?

If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.

Tongue is a beast, if it is let loose, it devours.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Deficiency will result in shame and sorrow but caution and foresight will bring peace and security.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

Silence is the garden of thought.

Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.

It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.

See how it's deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what's happening right in front of our eyes.

It's alright to forget, you know. It's good to. In fact we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.

She stops to make a note on her phone: abandon and presence, she writes. It's the first time she's felt like herself for quite some time.

It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.

Okay, I said. As long as I've got you here, we're going to use and appreciate this present moment. Because I wish, and I've wished a thousand times since you went, that we'd known it was the present, and that we were living in it.