Quotes About Mindfulness

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass

With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.

But we can't lead our lives in fear of what might be. So live each day to its utmost, only then will you be free. (Poem by Chast's mother)

I've learnt that if you let out your anger on someone, it comes back to you like acid reflux and you've poisoned yourself and feel toxic and nauseated while the taxi driver probably just goes back to his home and wife and has a lovely life. I

The student is told to set apart moments in his daily life in which to withdraw into himself, quietly and alone. He is not to occupy himself at such moments with the affairs of his own ego. This would result in the contrary of what is intended. He should rather let his experiences and the messages from the outer world re-echo within his own completely silent self. At such silent moments every flower, every animal, every action will unveil to him secrets undreamt of.

You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.

If you can dream and not make dreams your master

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors.

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where youre going?

Wel realy there aint no stilness any where is there. Not 1ce you begin to take noatis.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?

It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.

slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.

Russell Simmons

How much easier the task will be to review your past life, if you live each day as if that was the sole recording of your entire lifetime. Keep that page so neat and tidy, so filled with loving care, that if your life ended at midnight the page would be spotless and blameless, for surely even the worst of us can live one day in nearly blameless harmony with all about us.

let's all be reminded that no matter what our age, we're all growing older! We're racing toward those later years and the finish line that follows — so why not learn to run that race with grace and joy?

If we're busy borrowing distress from yesterday or anxiety from tomorrow, we miss today's best opportunities, thereby postponing our growth in grace, in faith, in character.

Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things.