Quotes About Mindfulness

to be conscious by choice

tomorrow has not happened and may never happen. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe. I tell you to savor this moment and understand what it teachers.

You strain at the next instant, refuse to live here and now.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life," Stilgar said

soportarse a uno mismo podía llegar a ser la tarea más complicada de todo el universo.

Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything

Stock your minds and you can move through the world resplendent.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want.

tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions

I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired.

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

I always succeed in not being jealous but only sometimes in comprehending the pointlessness of jealousy.

Accept your symptoms, don't complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.

Most men are not wicked. Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.