Quotes About Mindfulness

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us. Not everything which hurts may be bad.

it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." (p.23)

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

the greater part of our anxieties stems from an exaggerated sense of the importance of our own projects and concerns. We are tortured by our ideals and by a punishingly high-minded sense of the gravity of what we are doing.

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal

How we feel about 'the nature of existence' is largely determined by what we have to do in the next few hours.

Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation.

He knows that perfect happiness comes in tiny, incremental units only, perhaps no more than five minutes at a time. This is what one has to take with both hands and cherish.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender. 'Thank God!' we say,' those illusions are gone.' Everything added to the self is a burden as well as a pride.

what all books might do for their readers—namely, bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

So, in what ways are you mad?

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Mutluluk, bizim beklentilerimizdeki gibi kesintisiz ve uzun süren bir memnuniyet duygusu deÄŸildir. Aksine, akl?n ve bilincin de iÅŸin içinde olduÄŸu, k?sac?k ve tesadüfi bir olgudur; k?sa bir süre için dünyay? çok net alg?lar?z; geçmiÅŸin ve geleceÄŸin olumlu düÅŸünceleri bir araya gelir ve endiÅŸeler ortadan kaybolur. Fakat bu durumun on dakikadan daha uzun sürdüÄŸü pek nadirdir.

Everything is amazing—once.

prayer is when night descends over thought

n'allez pas trop vite.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

Instead of bringing back sixteen thousand new plant species, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small, unfeted but life-enhancing thoughts.

Het zou goed zijn als we structuur verleende aan ons innerlijke leven en onze beste gedachten te versterken, om tegengewicht te bieden aan constante afleidingen en versnippering.

A few moments in the countryside overlooking a valley could number among the most significant and useful of one's life, and be as worthy of precise remembrance as a birthday or a wedding.

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

we will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.