Quotes About Mindfulness

It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.

Focus on the path in front of you. Don't let any of them know they can upset you. If you let them know they can bother you, you give them power.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

The only way to deal with fear is to treat it like an unwelcome guest. If you keep entertaining it, you'll never be rid of it.

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

In silence our speech patterns are refined because silence fosters a self-awareness that enables us to choose more truly the words that we say.

Self-knowledge and self-examination. Parker Palmer makes this very sobering statement about leadership: "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Parker Palmer observes, "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Change works both ways. You must accept those moments, experience them, and let them go. Because if you allow yourself to get stuck in that minute, nothing will ever change.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

Reading feeds the spirit.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

I don't regard my life as insufficient. Inside the brushwood gate there is a moon; there are flowers.

I must go there today - Tomorrow the plum blossoms Will scatter.

Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here

The more relaxed your mind is, the more at peace you'll be, the better your mind will function, the more clear your thinking will be.

Keep your heart clear And transparent, And you will Never be bound. A single disturbed thought Creates ten thousand distractions.

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.

The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away,and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure... Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way

In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.

See and realize that this world is not permanent. Neither late nor early flowers will remain.

When all thoughts Are exhausted I slip into the woods And gather A pile of shepherd's purse. Like the little stream Making its way Through the mossy crevices I, too, quietly Turn clear and transparent.