Quotes About Mindfulness

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

It is a beastly business when people start eating without prayer, and when they are full, they run out without as much as mentioning God's name.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

O grant, that in the trials by which we must be daily exercised, we may raise upwards our minds to thee, and never cease to think that thou art near us;

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

A man is what he does with his attention.

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet.

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn't remember them—if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting.

There was a lot to be said for a man's capacity to be comfortable while alone.

I've found silence helps, but that requires patience. Uncomfortable with silence, the majority of individuals will seek to fill it, and unburdening has a lot in common with downhill skiing: once you start, it's very hard to stop.

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

One ignored the mundane at one's peril.

Life was simpler, too, if one did not think too hard. -The Burning Soul

When she [Elizabeth, Princess of Bohemia] went to take the waters at Spa, he [René Descartes] wrote to her that to get any benefit from them she should free her mind from all sorts of sad thoughts and even from serious reflections, because those who look long on the green of the forest, the colors of a flower, the flight of a bird, can beguile themselves into not thinking, or thinking of nothing. 'Which is not wasting time but using it well.

One of the virtues of drink was how it reduced life to these simple matters, which engaged all the attention; seeing, walking, raising a bottle accurately to the hole in your face. As though you were two years old again. No thoughts but simple ones. And

Do not intend to make a buddha.…

The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation.

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

When we realize the ground of being, we take responsibility directly, because what we realize is that what we do and what happens to us are the same thing.

Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don't grasp anything. We don't try to control anything. We just sit.

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