Quotes About Mindfulness

You hold on to the good of a thing, the part that enriches you, and do not dwell on the sadness. It is unproductive.

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

Afternoon on a Hill" I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your shoes for a while, unzip your fly, piss hearty, dig your toes in the hot sand, feel that raw and rugged earth, split a couple of big toenails, draw blood! Why not?

Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs, look around; throw away those goddamned idiotic cameras! For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare?

you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus.

Read to live, not live to read

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner.

You Mean It You cook because you decide to cook. You decide to take it on and everything that comes with it. You cook because you mean it. Your heart and hands work more and more in alignment with your clear intention. You'll see it through because you decided to see it through—and because the work itself is making your love manifest. Food appears!

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

It's just life — wake up and smell the thorns.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.