Quotes About Mindfulness

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.

If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment.

We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethans used "um" and "er" the way we do?

Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?

Just relax and don't worry over things that needn't trouble you," Mrs Whatsit said.

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

Time isn't any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

It's extremely difficult to get things in perspective when you rub up against them every day.

patted her stomach

There is no use in God's earth being upset by the things that other people do, only what you do yourself.

read a poem every day and think about it

Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

that Dr. Morrissey had always said that we found excuses to put off doing something that would take our minds off our worries. It was as if we didn't want to lose the luxury of worrying.

The Slow movement can get us back in touch with what it means to carry out scholarly work. Instead of "I am producing ...," we might say to ourselves and others, "I am contemplating ...," or "I am conversing with ..." or even "I am in joyful pursuit of ...

We need, then, to protect a time and a place for timeless time, and to remind ourselves continually that this is not self-indulgent but rather crucial to intellectual work. If we don't find timeless time, there is evidence that not only our work but also our brains will suffer.