Quotes About Mindfulness

accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance from it that winds up diminishing the unpleasantness.

was beginning to observe the workings of what psychologists call the "default mode network." This is a network in the brain that, according to brain- scan studies, is active when we're doing nothing in particular—not talking to people, not focusing on our work or any other task, not playing a sport or reading a book or watching a movie. It is the network along which our mind wanders when it's wandering.

thumbs. With every minute

mostanában észrevettem magamon egy nyugtalanító tendenciát, elfogadom a dolgokat olyannak, amilyenek.

That something merely happens is pointless. But that something happens and a watching eye gathers it into itself is everything.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Being in the moment of creating produces a meditative space where you can just lose yourself.

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.

The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.' Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.

He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Do not agonize about yesterday. Do not borrow tomorrow's trouble. Let your heart hunt. Rest in the now.

Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.

finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about.

The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.