Quotes About Mindfulness

You can't fight evil with meditation.

You can't help the way you feel.

Living is in the details. You've got to appreciate the details.

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice.

When you verbally appreciate people who are criticizing you, you're letting go of the need to defend, explain, or justify your behavior. You

In fact, there can be no doubt that when people have the experience that they've been listened to and understood, they let go of their preoccupation with their own thoughts and feelings. The door to their mind swings open, and that makes it much easier for them to hear you.

Your physical body and this life force have come together to form the entity that answers to your name. They are joined by your breath. Breathing is worth noticing and appreciating.

I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself

you will never get your ducks in a row.

Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world's way of thinking isn't sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual "atmosphere"?

Holding on to silent resentment makes you a prisoner in your own mind and emotions.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

Even if you are absolutely certain that a gun is not loaded, handle it as if it were because you're forming a habit, and the consequences of a moment of inattention or carelessness can be disastrous.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.

Ng??i ta luôn h?i, "H?ng ngày tôi ph?i thá»±c t?p nh?ng gì?" Câu tr? l?i c?a tôi là, "Su?t ngày canh ch?ng gi?n d?, luy?n ái, và b?n ngã.

Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more.

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.

To have a regular system of giving away some of your stuff forces you to "take inventory" once in a while.