Quotes About Mindfulness

There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.

Rage makes a man sick, my son. It spoils his appetite for life and keeps him from sleep at night. We cannot change our world, so we must look for the good things in life and enjoy those to the full.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.

Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." We avoid excessive worry

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

For example, the question "Do you now feel a slight numbness in your left leg?" always prompts quite a few people to report that their left leg does indeed feel a little strange.

You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

Much like the electricity meter outside your house or apartment, the pupils offer an index of the current rate at which mental energy is used. The analogy goes deep. Your use of electricity depends on what you choose to do, whether to light a room or toast a piece of bread. When you turn on a bulb or a toaster, it draws the energy it needs but no more. Similarly, we decide what to do, but we have limited control over the effort of doing it.

We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again.

your subjective experience consists largely of the story that your System 2 tells itself about what is going on.

students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind. The ease with which they are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling.

people who are simultaneously challenged by a demanding cognitive task and by a temptation are more likely to yield to the temptation.

Dalle prove raccolte risulta che, quando la mente è carica di cifre, si è più propensi a scegliere l'allettante dolce alla cioccolata. Il sistema 1 influisce di più sul comportamento quando il sistema 2 è indaffarato, e ha un debole per i dolci.2

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and

Recognize the signs that you are in a cognitive minefield, slow down, and ask for reinforcement of system 2.

Close your eyes.

I made myself smile and I'm actually feeling better!

These students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind.

The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort.

The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort. Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.