Quotes About Mindfulness

La vie est trop courte pour qu'on puisse entreprendre de la penser avant de la vivre. C'est

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we'll see.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Existing is occupation enough.

Long only for what you have.

Que chaque attente, en toi, ne soit même pas un désir, mais simplement une disposition à l'accueil. Attends tout ce qui vient à toi, mais ne désire que ce qui vient à toi. Ne désire que ce que tu as.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you're by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone – as it seems to me – is in danger.

Despite everything, a balanced, independent, lonely way of life can give the peace that is vital. I must look for peace. I must start to do meditation seriously—there I go, thinking again in Italian terms —and Buddhism.

Tip 2 Think! About Your Work

You almost always get better results if you slow the process down and spend some time going through the steps

Never run on auto-pilot. Constantly be thinking, critiquing your work in real time.

When we practise "dog awareness", we notice that our mind is usually somewhere else. Try eating a meal and tasting every mouthful. Talk to a friend and hear every word. Listen to a song and hear every note. Take a walk and see every tree. Gradually we get better at

The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

What they say behind my back is none of my business, but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

the distraction of business

meditations as here offered, and when we think we have

hold of the thoughts, and have asked God for His blessing, to go out in the hope that the blessing

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

what do I want from life? And I say: "Less!

No one could rival Author Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind...I was too much in law of his self-sufficiency, of his freedom. To disappear within himself for ten or fifteen minutes while I drew him, when I could barely sit still to hold the pencil.

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction.