Quotes About Mindfulness

Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought. One can be mindful of thought. There is all the difference in the world between thinking and knowing that thought is happening, as thoughts chase each other through the mind and the process is mirrored back to us.

Mindfulness is unbiased. It is not for or against anything, just like a mirror, which does not judge what it reflects. Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself. It doesn't try to add to what's happening or subtract from it, to improve it in any way.

It's not so much

Norwegian way of keeping all our earthly affairs from achieving too much importance.

Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.

But I knew the other part wasn't about me, so I decide not to make it about me now. It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

The moment where everything becomes unstuck: the world around you suddenly moving both slower and quicker, until you are completely and totally present in it. Your everything.

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

She loved to put her hands in the water and repeat her mantra: "Just for today. Just for today I will choose water over alcohol. Just for today I will allow water to cleanse me, to purify me.

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

She craved solitude, but not infinite solitude.

Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself.

All you really have...is now.

Joy is everywhere. You just have to recognize it.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Screaming was for when you didn't have anything better to do.

Think before you speak. Take a deep breath, people suggested. Count to ten. Count sheep. Oh, wait, that was for sleeping. Even in her own head, her tongue ran ahead of her brain. It propelled her into all sorts of absurd situations. Elopements. Scandals. This.

It's a virtue to know one's own heart and mind. It saves a lot of bother and a great deal of unhappiness.

A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire.