Quotes About Mindfulness

It can be valuable to analyze what went wrong in the past, but it is far more important to develop the capacity to think in the moment. In that way you will make far fewer mistakes to analyze.

Create Mental Space from the Group

What makes us go astray in the first place is that we are unattuned to the present moment, insensitive to the circumstances. We are listening to our own thoughts, reacting to things that happened in the past, applying theories and ideas that we digested long ago but that have nothing to do with our predicament in the present. More books, theories, and thinking only make the problem worse.

Without any visual cues or any action on the part of others, we can place ourselves inside their minds and imagine what they might be thinking.

No matter how hard people try to pull you in, never let your interest in their affairs and petty squabbles go beyond the surface.

Look at things as they are, not as your emotions color them.

A veces puedes lograr más no haciendo nada.

Spiritualize your warfare.

Hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time.

The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt.

So much of our obsessive, internal thought process tends to disconnect us from the world.

The way to live a long time—oh, a thousand years or more—is something between the way a child does it and the way a mature man does it. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever...

The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.---Irrational Exuberance

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle

Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor

Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

The Elders always said I spoke an hour before I thought.

As Tam had taught him long ago, he formed a single flame in his mind and fed his fears into it, seeking emptiness, the stillness of the void. The flame seemed to grow until it enveloped everything, until it was too large to contain or imagine any longer. With that it was gone, leaving in its place a sense of peace. At its edges, emotions still flickered, fear and anger like black blotches, but the void held. Thought skimmed across its surface like pebbles across ice.

A man who thinks all day about the catch he missed because of stormy weather ends up wasting time when the sky is clear.

Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty.

He liked being able to think things through. It was easy to hurt people without meaning to when you were hasty.