Quotes About Mindfulness

It felt like forever, and since I hadn't gone back inside the house to get my wristwatch before we headed out, time was measured by how it felt.

Whether it has two legs or four, just because a pup yaps at you doesn't mean you have to pay it any mind.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

she made it clear that artists and audiences need to find the inner capacity to meet an event with spaciousness and a sense of possibility. Both life and art can prepare us for the openness that we need to bring ourselves to the unfolding moment.

"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on Nothing but Meditation?

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight before going to bed at night. I open mine as wide as possible. I like to see everything, I say. What's there to see? Moon. Air. Sunrise. All that light on your face in the morning. Wakes you up. I like to wake up.

There is something you should know. And the right way to know it is by a cherrying of your mind.

It is hard for fish to be aware of water. It is hard for us to notice something that's an ingrained pattern shaping our habitual thought.

Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.

Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.

Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.

Feelings aren't right or wrong. They just are.

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

The idea that you could think and choose how to be, instead of simply reacting

Pray continually. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:17

When we de-repress the fear of death, we reclaim the energy that has gone into denial. We feel buoyed up as streams of creative energy course through our bodies, minds and nervous systems. By facing a subject that usually depresses and terrifies us, we feel lighter, freer, more perceptually and cognitively alive in all our encounters....Old age will no longer be a synonym for death, or dying, but for living.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.