Quotes About Mindfulness

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

I hope death overtakes me when I'm occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.

There is one road to peace and happiness (keep the thought near by morning, noon and night): renunciation of externals;

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

When you feel burning desire for something that appears pleasureful, you are like a person under a spell. Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.

So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.

Therefore your will is your own business too.

When you are by yourself you should call it peace and liberty, and consider yourself the gods' equal. When you're with a large group you shouldn't say you're in a mob or crowd, but a guest at a feast or festival – and in that spirit learn to enjoy it.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

They made you responsible only for what is in your power – the proper use of impressions.

Don't let the force of the impression when first it hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, 'Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent.

So when we are frustrated, angry or unhappy, never hold anyone except ourselves – that is, our judgements – accountable.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Put away the fear of death, and however much thunder and lightning you have to face, you will find the mind capable of remaining calm and composed regardless.

In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

It betrays a lack of an interior life when a person is overly focused on bodily things—whether indulging in food and drink, exercising to exhaustion, or spending excessive time on grooming. Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts.

Here is the primary means of training yourself: as soon as you leave in the morning, subject whatever you see or hear to close study. Then formulate answers as if they were posing questions.

The soul is like a bowl of water, with the soul's impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. [21] Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it – though of course it is not.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control.