Quotes About Mindfulness

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

I still find each day too short.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Every moment of our life is important.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.