Quotes About Mindfulness

He lived where he was, began to enjoy the moment he was in, instead of fuming about the moment of departure which should have, and had not, arrived. These were his life's beatitudes, times when his own nature did not separate him from his life; when the needle of his being held steady at the very moment and place of his existence. It was his ambition to live his whole life in this way; though he had schemes and plans for everything else, he knew no way to scheme himself into such moments.

Much of the deep depression that surrounds us in life has to do with this one thing — that we can't even see the smallest plainest objects.

For the first time in a long while, he looked down and saw his hands. If you have had this experience, you'll know just what I mean.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.

in Linda's words: "Living a life of plenty with what you have.

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

I believe the best revenge is to live.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

It is essential [...] that discipline should not be practiced like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and that one slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behavior which one would eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

O passo mais importante no aprendizado da concentração é aprender a ficar só consigo mesmo, sem ler, sem ouvir rádio, sem fumar, sem beber. Na verdade, ser capaz de concentrar-se significa ser capaz de ficar só consigo mesmo

knowing begins with the awareness of the deceptiveness of our common sense perceptions, in the sense that our picture of physical reality does not correspond to what is "really real" and, mainly, in the sense that most people are half-awake, half-dreaming, and are unaware that most of what they hold to be true and self-evident is illusion produced by the suggestive influence of the social world in which they live.

Ficar concentrado significa viver plenamente no presente, agora, aqui, e não pensar na coisa seguinte a ser feita enquanto estou fazendo outra coisa neste instante.

Si uno está concentrado, poco importa qué está haciendo; las cosas importantes, tanto como las insignificantes, toman una nueva dimensión de la realidad, porque están llenas de la propia atención.

Estar concentrado significa vivir plenamente en el presente, en el aquí y el ahora, y no pensar en la tarea siguiente mientras estoy realizando otra. Es innecesario decir que la concentración debe ser sobre todo practicada por personas que se aman mutuamente. Deben aprender a estar el uno cerca del otro, sin escapar de las múltiples formas acostumbradas.

Happiness lies all around us. We only have to pick it up.

Paris is a city where time is best to spend by doing nothing

Dažbr?d cilv?ks pavisam aizmirst, ka vi?š dz?vo. - Es gan to arvien apzinos. Tikai nezinu l?g?, ko ar to ies?kt.

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts

slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

constantly keep in mind that whatever has happened

When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.