Quotes About Mindfulness

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Tanr? bize iki yuvarlak organ verdi: biri oturmak, di?eri dü?ünmek için. Ba?ar?m?z hangisini daha çok kullanaca??m?za ba?l?.

Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, stated: Rise early in the morning to greet the sun. Inhale and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and let the cosmos inside. Next breathe up the fe- cundity and vibrance of the Earth. Blend the breath of Earth with your own and become the breath of life it- self. Your mind and body will be gladdened, depression and heartache will dissipate and you will be filled with gratitude.5

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron

I'm either becoming Zen or more depressed, he thinks.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

It is wrong to give way to grief.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

So often we miss life's beauty because we are preoccupied by its flaws.

When this uneasy feeling forms, in a context of awareness, the person is thereby already living beyond the problem, already living in and toward what would be right for her.

In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day.

Meditation needs an awake mind not an unconscious one.

Dear Jean, I have seen a deer. I have petted a pony. I helped plant a garden. I have smelled earth and felt it in my hands. You watched the sun rise. These things are worth the struggle to live outside.