Quotes About Mindfulness

It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.

But my nose is running!' What do you have hands for, idiot, if not to wipe it? 'But how is it right that there be running noses in the first place?' Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn't it be easier just to wipe your nose?

In every situation, consider what precedes it and what may follow—then act. If you act rashly, without regard to consequences, you may defeat your purposes.

Refuse to participate in gossip—tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.

Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, I have lost it and instead say, It has been returned to where it came from. [...] The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If they act or speak from a warped perspective, they hurt themselves—not you. For if someone mistakes truth for falsehood, the truth is not harmed, but only the person deceived. Keeping this in mind, gently turn away any insult or injury. "It seems right to them, though they are mistaken.

If reason tells you a pleasure is wholesome and harmless, you may enjoy it in moderation. But take care not to let your happiness gradually become dependent on it.

Be confident in everything outside the will, and cautious in everything under the will's control.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves.

If you take care of it and identify with it, you will never be blocked or frustrated; you won't have to complain, and never will need to blame or flatter anyone.

the ability to make good use of impressions

For of the things which are within the power of the will, as being good and present, you have a proper and regulated desire: but of the things which are not in the power of the will you do not desire any one, and so you do not allow any place to that which is irrational, and impatient, and above measure hasty.

Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.

Begin therefore with little things. A little oil is spilled, a little wine is stolen: say, "This is the price of tranquility; this is the price of not being upset.

At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next every two, next every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the Gods in thanksgiving.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens (Epictetus)

If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don't try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, 'Yes, and he doesn't know the half of it, because he could have said more

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothin which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

Do you realize that you are awake?' 'No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.' 'And is the one impression in no way different from the other?' 'No.

Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it's based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body. [36]

19] 'My brother shouldn't have treated me in this way.' Indeed he shouldn't, but it's for him to see to that. For my part, however he treats me, I should conduct myself towards him as I ought. For that is my business, and the rest is not my concern. In this no one can hinder me, while everything else is subject to hindrance.

But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control.

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those