Quotes About Mindfulness

Creating more time is not logistical, but attitudinal.

Contentment is not achieved by having stuff. It is achieved by enjoying the stuff you have.

Tu trabajo consiste en que tu conciencia se establezca en el asombro, la belleza y el valor del momento presente, que es lo que te hará feliz ahora y te ayudará a seguir siéndolo.

No response is a response.

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

What do you think is there that you cannot find here?

Si te centras en los momentos dolorosos, creas un pasado doloroso que arrastras al presente. Cuando te centras en los momentos felices, creas un pasado feliz y experimentas paz en el presente.

Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.

if we are able to describe the situation, what we want, what is happening, and legitimize the emotional process even when we do not like it, typically our emotional arousal will start the return toward a lower state of emotional upset and eventually back to normal emotional arousal

The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.

The more sober you get, the more clearly you feel

Somehow, we need to create a new habit of mind, as individuals and as a society. We need a mental attitude that values and protects stillness, privacy, solitude, slowness, personal reflection; that honors the inner life; that allows each of us to wander about without schedule within our own minds.

Don't we owe that young woman, and all of our children, a world in which their contemplative lives are valued and supported? Don't we owe it to ourselves?

A small number of residents in each city have stopped caring whether they age a few seconds faster than their neighbors. These adventuresome souls come down to the lower world for days at a time, lounge under the trees that grow in the valleys, swim leisurely in the lakes that lie at warmer altitudes, roll on level ground. They hardly look at their watches and cannot tell you if it is Monday or Thursday. When the others rush by them and scoff, they just smile.

I would argue, however, that in most and perhaps all forms of creative activity, an unencumbered, unregimented, inward-looking mind is required at certain points—a mind that has unplugged from the wired world.

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

But our desks were never meant to be our altars.

learn to desire what you already have, and you will have all you need.

1. If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.8

You should live in the moment' is as unhelpful an imperative as 'You should believe in yourself and secure the future you want'. The only 'should' we need ever take on board is that we 'should' get on with our lives without hurting other people.

By projecting ourselves always into the hereafter we miss out on the present, on knowing ourselves and the richness of the current moment. By trying to control what we can't, we all but guarantee frustration and disappointment.

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing. Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.

Now for Heavens sake go to bed. Dont worry about how it was done just go straight to bed. Leave the washing-up and get into bed fully clothed. If any of you want to know how any of it was done, please feel free to write in to me at my home address which will come up on the screen in a moment and I will give you a full and honest explanation of anything you may ask.