Quotes About Mindfulness

to speak without thinkin will lead you to an early grave, or to a very small cinder-block cell!

You know some minutes warn you they're going to be mighty short and you'd better take a snapshot of 'em while you can. ("Golden Baby")

Polly was always shocked to learn how complacent she was, when she was certain of her good intentions.

While you're alive there's no time for minor amazements.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

Everyday may not be good, but there's something good in every day.

I can't remember to be tempted.

not looking up but lost in pause

To feel the sun and see the orange light leak through the skin of my eyelids is copacetic-squared. Sight

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

But it was difficult, this living in real time only, and not diluting it by looking back or skipping forward. No wonder it's never really caught on with most people, I thought. It's just too hard.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

more of a sojourn. A sojourn is a "temporary stay at a place."4 And a "stay" is about presence, not productivity.

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.

At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.

For life is what animals can teach us: how the present moment is all, and past and future are illusion.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.

Before we open our mouths, we ought to heed the advice of the missionary Amy Carmichael and ask: Is what I'm about to say kind? Is it true? Is it necessary?

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

O presente é positivo, ocupemo-nos dele primeiro, que o futuro por sua vez virá.