Quotes About Mindfulness

dukkha, which is usually translated as "suffering," can have other meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, the word is sometimes slanted differently, she says. Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely.

She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

How had she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

I savoured the moment because the moment was more than enough

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

Stick to breathing. It's the only thing you're any good at.

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not.

Don't look to the past in anger nor the future in fear, but around in awareness. —J

Thich Nhat Hanh

Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word." (The Great Exchange)

We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6: 34).

Be cool, trust the universe, don't worry about what you can't control.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.

Not for the first time, as the trip kicks in, I make a note to myself: Don't be an asshole.

Don't forget about the past, don't worry about the future, but love what's here now!

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. —Milan Kundera