Quotes About Mindfulness

Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment.

Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?

Be happy when you find that doctrines you have learned and analysed are being tested by real events. If you've succeeded in removing or reducing the tendency to be mean and critical, or thoughtless, or foul-mouthed, or careless, or nonchalant; if old interests no longer engage you, at least not to the same extent; then every day can be a feast day – today because you acquitted yourself well in one set of circumstances, tomorrow because of another.

Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything.

You will never have to experience defeat if you avoid contests whose outcome is outside your control.

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

The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.

Who, then, is the invincible human being? One who can be disconcerted by nothing that lies outside the sphere of choice.

If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man—accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.

If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.

Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.

Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.

Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation; you are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

We aren't filled with fear except by things that are bad; and not by them, either, as long as it is in our power to avoid them.

Don't concern yourself with other people's business. It's his problem if he receives you badly. And you cannot suffer for another person's fault. So don't worry about the behavior of other.

Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.

Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. IX

Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.