Quotes About Mindfulness

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

The best way to get even is to forget.

if you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be.

Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.

What is clutter but the physical manifestation of indecision, procrastination and not being entirely engaged in your own life?

Living in the present moment means accepting your experience, moment by moment, without judgment, which takes both practice and positive intention.

You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happen, you enjoy them more than people who are always thinking about the past or the future.

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

to achieve a normal weight, change your relationship to food so your most-of-the-time way of eating becomes a social, health-enhancing, pleasurable experience.

Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you—it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

stop dwelling on it? If you think about it day

How do we set about not imagining something?

Bengali philosopher, poet and composer Rabindranath Tagore: It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Sometimes I would sprinkle sea salt on a wedge sour green tomato and dip it into the peppery emerald olive oil. It was as if I had struck on something good that was within my reach.

Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom. Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

With determined perseverance the effort eventually becomes effortless, just as eating or brushing our teeth is effortless. We learn how energy flows. After a time the exercises and ritual of meditation are no longer needed as tools for growth. They become part of us and we use them at all times. In whatever we do there is meditation in action. But we must be careful not to deceive ourselves that we are already there. This is a new evolutionary step for us and we must begin at the beginning.

Meditation...brings us to union with the true self, the one in ourself and in others. We develop deep devotion to this one when we realise that it is the one who is in all, loves us through all and loves all through us.

Walking a trail frees my mind to wander....

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Fear's ploy is to stop us looking at him, or indeed anything else, closely and attentively. When panic strikes it helps to remember that the simple act of paying attention is calming. In fact only attentiveness brings peace.

Then if you don't mind a suggestion—plan what you will do, and then set it aside until tomorrow," Cole said. "You tend to worry things in circles. Try to worry in a straight line.