Quotes About Mindfulness

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. —Chinese proverb

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.

Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.

Too early…too late. A last message to live in the present. To accept the past and not rush the future.

How does one find peace outside the bounds of the Church?" "Acceptance and mindfulness

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Marilah kita bergembira. Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

Speaking from experience, there are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their heads.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

it's our task to immerse ourselves...while keeping eyes and hearts open...

It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better

It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind.

Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account

Please guide my words and actions so that they bring blessings to everyone involved

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

He had decided not to be angry: it was killing him.