Quotes About Mindfulness

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

he thought that this was how he was going to live life from now on, savouring small pleasures and not looking beyond them for happiness that was more complete.

Using our hands to think about a problem, such as cleaning, mending, cooking, knitting or gardening, where the end goal is meaningful, is like taking a mental health vitamin, Lambert concludes. Any useful task that engages your hands gives you a sense of control over your environment and is, ultimately, very empowering. Craftwork brings exactly the same brain rewards.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

attempting to martial his thoughts.

Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." The

Emotional control typically relies on various subtle tricks, such as changing how one thinks about the problem at hand, or distracting oneself. Hence,

The result suggests that telling yourself 'I can have this later' operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree—and can be even more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually eating the treat...the ones who'd postponed pleasure ate even less than the people who had earlier allowed themselves to eat the candy at will.

If you remind yourself that it usually takes four good things to overcome one bad thing, you'll know not to trust your immediate responses to bad events.

Making yourself switch to your left hand is thus an exercise in self-control. You can resolve to use your left hand instead of your habitual right hand for brushing your teeth, using a computer mouse, opening doors, or lifting a cup to your lips.

True positiveness is the effect on life that comes about simply through not being affected by it. This beautiful thing comes to pass by discovering a relationship with our Parent Self. If we let the Presence within affect us more than our environment, we remain calm—less and less affected by stress.

Parte da nossa estupidez é a incontinência verbal, a constante ejaculação de palavras – quando a verdadeira sabedoria seria fazer silêncio, parar os pensamentos, para ouvir a pregação das estrelas, dos peixes, das aves, das plantas.

só temos o momento. Não percam o agora.

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

The essence of neuroplasticity is that what you practise you'll cultivate. If you are cruel and spiteful, you'll become expert at getting even crueller and more spiteful. If you practise being compassionate, you'll become more compassionate. That's how our brains work; the way we think or feel determines our wiring and what chemicals are coursing through our veins. If

Gandhi said, 'There is more to life than speed'. Unfortunately he didn't tell us what, he just left us hanging while he pranced around in his nappy. To

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness

You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

Being on automatic pilot, multitasking and using past or future thinking are all techniques for ensuring survival, but they can also be at the heart of our unhappiness.

the gap between wanting and getting, while the 'being' mode has no voice, it's just directly sensing something; and being in the eye of the experience.

to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.