Quotes About Mindfulness

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

People who do not know how to remain silent, do not know how to talk.

it is not worth while to remember that past which cannot become a present.

Het is allemaal waar wat de filosofie zegt: het leven moet achterwaarts worden begrepen. Maar dan vergeet men de tweede zin: dat het voorwaarts moet worden geleefd.

Tap for all del ikke lysten til å gå: jeg går meg til det daglige velbefinnende hver dag og går fra enhver sykdom; jeg har gått meg til mine beste tanker og jeg kjenner ingen tanke så tung at man ikke kan gå fra den.

Expect Nothing

But always when I was without a book, my soul at once became disturbed, and my thoughts wandered.

There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

A moment or two of serious self-scrutiny, and you might observe that you no more decide the next thought you think than the next thought I write.

How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and contemplatives have made this claim for ages—but a growing body of scientific research now bears it out.

We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process.

The feeling that we call "I" is itself the product of thought. Having an ego is what it feels like to be thinking without knowing that you are thinking.

Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.

if you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.

Every moment of the day—indeed, every moment throughout one's life—offers an opportunity to be relaxed and responsive or to suffer unnecessarily.

The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world.

Why didn't I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not.