Quotes About Mindfulness

Time was that wherever forsaken I was a man well-portioned; but that man well-portioned is he that has given himself a good portion; and good portions are good phases of the soul, good impulses, good actions.

Make no difference in doing thy duty whether thou art shivering or warm, drowsy or sleep-satisfied, defamed or extolled, dying or anything else. For the act of dying too is one of the acts of life. So it is enough in this also to get the work in hand done well.

You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible.

Do not be overheard companining. Not even to yourself.

Be not dilatory in doing, nor confused in conversation, nor vague in thought; let not thy soul be wholly concentred in itself nor uncontrollably agitated; leave thyself leisure in thy life.

Suppress the thought; and the cry I am hurt! is gone. Suppress I am hurt! and you suppress the injury.

25. So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

By not being content with thy ruling Reason doing the work for which it was constituted, thou hast borne unnumbered ills. Nay, 'tis enough!

Not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-

It is a disgrace for the soul to be the first to succumb in that life in which the body does not succumb.

We ought not to think only upon the fact that our life each day is waning away, what is left of it being ever less, but this also should be a subject for thought

Fritter not away what is left of thy life in thoughts about others, unless thou canst bring these thoughts into

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you've already seen. The world is change. Our life is only perception.

Nothing is more miserable than one who is always out and about, running around everything in circles and looking for signs and symptoms to divine his neighbor's minds. He doesn't realize that it is sufficient to concentrate solely on the divinity within himself and to give it true service.

I do what is mine to do, the rest does not disturb me.

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

How easy it is to drive away or obliterate from one's mind every impression which is troublesome or alien, and then to be immediately in perfect calm. p36

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us

Acuérdate siempre que no se pierde otra vida que la que se vive y que solo se vive la que se pierde. Así­ la mas larga vida y la mas corta vienen a reducirse a lo mismo. El momento presente que se vive es igual para todos el que se pierde lo es también, y este que se pierde llega a parecernos indivisible. Y es que no se pierde el pasado ni el futuro, pues lo que no poseemos ¿Cómo puede sernos arrebatado

Be not whirled aside; but in every impulse fulfil the claims of justice, and in every impression safeguard certainty.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you.