Quotes About Mindfulness

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.

Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. What's in my thoughts at this moment? Fear? Jealousy? Desire? Feelings like that?

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!

So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

The present moment is the only thing of which anyone can be deprived, at least if this is the only thing he has and he cannot lose what he has not got.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. 18.

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not due to the thing but to your own estimate of it.

Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.

So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves.

Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.

To grieve or be angry about or fear what happens to you is to be a fugitive from the law of nature.

Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.

Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming – in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the Ruler within you – means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first.