Quotes About Mindfulness

From having nursed alongside a variety of women, Lib knew that self-mastery counted for more than almost any other talent. She

Well so long as you're awake, does it matter how you were woken?

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small, and sorrow will never spy it...

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

We know the Truth; we do not judge by appearances. We know that we live in a mental world, and to know that is the key to life. If a child could be taught only one thing, it should be taught that this is a mental world. I would let all the other things go and teach him that.

He clearly indicates throughout his teaching that the time has come when man must make each and every day a spiritual Sabbath by knowing and doing all things in a spiritual light.

The great Stephen King once wrote don't sweat the small stuff, which I mulled over for long enough to realise that I don't entirely agree with it. I get what he means: we all have enough major sorrow in our lives without freaking out over the day-today hangnails and such, but sometimes sweating the small stuff helps you make it through the big stuff.

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No hagas que tu felicidad dependa de lo que no depende de ti

Recuerda que debes conducirte en la vida como en un banquete. ¿Un plato ha llegado hasta ti? Extiende tu mano sin ambición, tómalo con modestia. ¿Se aleja? No lo retengas. ¿No ha llegado aún? No lances desde lejos tu deseo, sino que espera a que el plato esté a tu lado.

Un signo cierto de un espíritu incapaz es el de ocuparse mucho tiempo en el cuidado del cuerpo, así mismo como en el ejercicio, la bebida, el comer y en otras necesidades corporales. Estas cosas no deben ser lo principal, sino lo accesorio de nuestra vida.

Não procures que tudo quanto acontece aconteça como desejas, antes deseja que tudo aconteça como de facto acontece. Desse modo serás feliz.

Manual para una vida feliz

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

You become what you give your attention to.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, "He who is content.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance