Quotes About Mindfulness

You cannot control how others treat you, but by pushing the pause button, by taking time to choose your response to situations, you can be far more in control and far more likely to make appropriate decisions.

Nothing is but what is now

The next time you have a thought . . . let it go.

A minute, fully lived, can feel like all the time in the world.

If you are capable of hearing, listen.

one drink did not a drunk make

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.

Never feel like or say you are "giving up" your favorite foods. Those words have a negative connotation, like you are sacrificing something. You're not "giving up" anything. You are simply empowered now and able to make educated, controlled choices about what you will and won't put into your body, your temple.

All kidding aside, if everyone did yoga, we would have world peace.

My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me.

People for the most part pass by the loveliest things in life without paying attention.

We have to take everything as it comes and to find beauty in everything. That's what I manage to do.

It is to be present to the way things are, including our feelings about the way things are. This practice can help us clarify the next step that will take us in the direction we say we want to go.

the capacity to be present to everything that is happening, without resistance, creates possibility

You look for thoughts and actions that reflect survival and scarcity, comparison and competition, attachment and anxiety. Notice that the question is not, "Are my thoughts . . ." which is a question of assessment, but, "How are my thoughts . . ." which is a true inquiry.

BEING WITH the way things are calls for an expansion of ourselves. We start from what is, not from what should be; we encompass contradictions, painful feelings, fears, and imaginings, and—without fleeing, blaming, or attempting correction—we learn to soar, like the far-seeing hawk, over the whole landscape. The practice of being with the way things are allows us to alight in a place of openness, where "the truth" readies us for the next step, and the sky opens up.

Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so g—damn seriously.'" "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?" "There aren't any.

We keep looking so hard in life for the "specific message," and yet we are blinded to the fact that the message is all around us, and within us all the time. We just have to stop demanding that it be on OUR terms or conditions, and instead open ourselves to the possibility that what we seek may be in front of us all the time.

Being present to the way things are is not the same as accepting things as they are

Outside, the snow drifted down the layers of air, flake by flake. Watching the snow glide down put Patrice into a trance

Father Damien maintained a neutral, kind, meditative watchfulness that had in it no hint of impatience.

Why were they talking all at once? Omakayas wondered. Nokomis thought for a while. I think they talk to each other all the time, she said, but our minds are not always peaceful enough to hear them.