Quotes About Mindfulness

I would like you to pause for a moment, and to record your own feelings about smoking: what you think it does for you, why you smoke and why you want to

I know that heroin will do absolutely nothing for me and that I neither need nor want it, and I don't have to keep telling myself that.

The odds of me living until I'm a hundred are slim to none, but I'll try, and I'll enjoy every precious moment.

A bit of emptiness is actually very good for you. It leaves room for your imagination to flourish, ideas to hatch, or simply for your brain to rest. Without emptiness, your ability to be creative is severely diminished. Smartphones may be the work of some highly creative minds, but they are destroying creativity in their users.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

Sometimes we look but don't see, listen but don't hear, touch but don't feel. If one sense fails, the others step in.

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.

Time heals so well because many of our ills are short-term, situational, and self-limited - our bodies and our minds are programmed to be resilient without any active effort on our part.

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?

Forget pleasure and Ambition

First thought, best thought.

Without even intending it, there is that little shiver of a moment in time preserved in the crystal cabinet of the mind. A little shiver of internal space. That's what I was looking for.

The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.

Stop all fantasy! live in the physical world moment to moment - Dawn

The most underused tool in the kitchen is the brain. I blame the food media (yes, that of which I am a part) who have lulled us into a state of recipe slavery. We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

One just has to be observant, because when we deal with the every day we usually see, but we fail to notice.

Humans are often this way. They go about their lives, constantly working, complaining of boredom one minute and overwork the next. They pause only to observe the niceties of society, greeting each other with 'Good morning' while their minds are somewhere else completely.

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.

You have to learn to love the small things in life... you have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

When you're planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.

I despise violence. It is the last tool of feeble minds.