Quotes About Mindfulness

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

The most important aspects of our lives cannot be rushed. We cannot love, think, eat, laugh, or pray in a hurry...When we are in a hurry--which comes from overextension--we find ourselves unable to live with awareness and kindness.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said … that he had a lot of issues in his life, most of which never happened.

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to him to substitute artificial metal forks for them when eating.

Everything you think about is a meditation, and you could say that the very form of your consciousness follows what you put your attention to. So Chi is really just focused attention, and it is attention, or awareness, that brings about results of whatever kind, rather than some nebulous energy or vril force. But energy is a good metaphor.

Money is nothing more than an energy source that is attracted by both positive and negative energy, learn to attract more positive energy into your life from all directions and stop focusing on the little things like money and you will be amazed how money starts to stick to you like a magnet. It's mostly those who think about money 24/7 that live and die broke

Sex, Sex, Sex, seems like that is everything nowadays, I'm not like that I need healthy stimulation to my mind, capture my mind and my heart will follow.

It Doesn't take much to look around and see all the blessings in your life

Train yourself to stop thinking like a broke person, broke people will remain and die broke

Minho had taught Thomas that speaking only wasted energy, so he concentrated on his pace and his breaths.

For a long time they just sat there, holding hands, no words spoken, in their minds or aloud. He felt the slightest hint of peace, as fleeting as it was, and tried to enjoy it for however long it might last.

To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

The only way out is within.

Be mindful even if your mind is full.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

One of Watson's many passionately held beliefs was that too many people failed to fulfil their potential because they didn't make enough effort to use their brains. He insisted that the word 'THINK' be posted on placards around C-T-R's offices and also on people's desks.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

Only those who have cultivated the art of living completely in the present have any use for making plans for the future, for when the plans mature they will be able to enjoy the results.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.