Quotes About Mindfulness

our physical capacity for sustained attention is decreasing.

Self-denial is an unfamiliar concept for many of us today, and we worry that it requires losing our individuality. But all self-denial means is realizing that we do not always have to have our own way, that our happiness does not depend on getting what we want.1

Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.

There is one major difference that has occurred in the past forty years that does indeed impinge upon the spiritual life. I can state it in one word: distraction.

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

It is nothing to the green-finches; all their thoughts are in their song-talk. The sunny moment is to them all in all. So deeply are they rapt in it that they do not know whether it is a moment or a year. There is no clock for feeling, for joy, for love

Look on the bright side. You didn't bleed all over my clean floor," Kasabian says. "Your floor was always my utmost concern.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

You might get much better value and happiness out of a simpler and cheaper lifestyle.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it?

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

IT TAKES TIME—loose, unstructured dreamtime—to experience nature in a meaningful way.

In an effort to value and structure time, some of us unintentionally may be killing dreamtime.

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

one of the main benefits of spending time in nature is stress reduction.

Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive. Alive in the larger universe, alive in time.

We all need to appreciate ourselves for what we are and stop whining about what we are not. I grow weary of wishing so desperately for something else. Those concerns find no resolution. All I can do is do what I can do....

I am not sure of the future," he [Cohen's father] says, "but I will take it as it comes." Adjust, after the fact. Do not simply react to possibility.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.