Quotes About Mindfulness

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.

Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.

All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.

Don't get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Meditation is listening to the Divine within.

Keep an even, normal balance in diet of body, diet of mind, and the use and associations of same in every way; for as a man thinketh in his heart (not as he speaks, but as he thinketh in his heart) so is he. So, keep the body fit, keep the mind fit. Do not allow little antagonisms of body OR mind to undo that thou hast builded in thine experience.

This is harder than it first appears: Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what [such] a day would bring to you . . .

The entity should attempt, - seriously, prayerfully, spiritually, - to see even that as might be called the ridiculous side of every question, - the humor in same. Remember that a good laugh, an arousing even to what might in some be called hilariousness, is good for the body, physically, mentally, and gives the opportunity for greater mental and spiritual awakening.

What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.

Building a relationship begins with attitudinal preparation, a conscious process of building the right kind of mind-set.

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Check out your own emotions and intentions before offering, giving, or receiving help.

The point is that no matter what you do or don't do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

The past can't touch you unless you let it.

I believe solitude to be not only the unavoidable human condition but also the sensible human preference." ? Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories, (from "Mates")

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.