Quotes About Mindfulness

Every moment has the possibility of delighting us, nurturing us, supporting us - if we are here to see it. Life is a tremendous gift, but most of us are missing it because we are watching a mental movie of our lives instead. As we learn to trust in the moment and to value awareness, we learn how to turn off the internal mood projector and start living a much more interesting life - the one we are actually starring in.

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

That makes the air very sweet, just being able to smell it and know you're going to keep smelling it. You're already ahead on your day.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

greet the day gently and with utmost care.

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Shifting our awareness to what is pleasant and beautiful and good is deeply affirming. It taps into the fundamental goodness of life

As a mindfulness student once said to his teacher, "Every time I start to think about how I'm finally in the here and now, I realize the moment has already passed." The

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12

If you are feeling any kind of negative emotion, you can counteract it in the next sixty seconds by noticing something for which you're grateful.

qué implica tal cambio de conciencia? Lo que en realidad hace es demostrar la diferencia entre una orientación hacia el resultado y una orientación hacia el proceso.

We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.

If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected

One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Every time I write, say, or think "lung cancer," I pick up a Pall Mall to calm myself.

Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.

In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.