Quotes About Mindfulness

I want you to have some nice stuff; I just don't want your nice stuff to have you.

We will also do better when we can recognize the worry thoughts as signs of nervousness and anxiety, the same as an eye twitch or sweaty palms, rather than some important message about the future

If you or I have a doubt that really bothers us, though, we're likely to respond very differently. We're likely to treat that doubt as if it were a sign of danger, rather than the usual discomfort we can feel about uncertainty. When you get tricked into treating the discomfort of doubt as if it were danger, this leads you to struggle against the doubt, trying to remove the unwanted thoughts from your mind.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

Every meditator carries an enormous amount of baggage in the form of mental static. This provides fuel for noisy thought-engines that seem to be constantly running.

Sam?dhi is the state of concentrated calm resulting from meditation practice."8 In another, we find "It implies not merely equilibrium, tranquillity, and one-pointedness, but a state of intense yet effortless concentration, of complete absorption of the mind itself, of heightened and expanded awareness.

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

Contentedness comes from an awareness of security.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

Contentedness comes from an awareness of security. As long as you're not in danger, and there's no immediate situation that threatens your security or causes you discomfort, then you should be content. And speaking of content, breakfast is ready.

Then you found ways, strategies for dealing with it. There were techniques. She knew because she had studied them. The best one she had found was to turn the memory black and white, freeze the action, push the frozen, black and white image far away, notice the feeling of peace…

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

absent pleasures are not bad

Getting your feelings hurt is not an offense. Feeling ignorant around someone is not an offense. Being made angry is not an offense.

So make sure in your heart of hearts, in your inner self, that you treat your station in life with indifference, not with contempt, only with indifference.