Quotes About Mindfulness

I could have tuned myself into sleep, but I had an idea that if I stared into space and tried not to think about the things that were currently bothering me, I might be giving my subsconscious time to work on the problem.

If it was any of my business, somebody would tell me about it eventually.

It wasn't healthy to live in the past or worse, to let the past live in your head forever. I'd save that kind of wallowing for special occasions.

I didn't reach out. I just…sat still. Held to myself. And let the universe come to me.

Breath held, I will her to speak without making me ask for it, but Riel plays this game better than I do.

Hating people doesn't accomplish anything except poisoning yourself. I should turn it off. I should let it go. The thing was, first I had to want to let it go.

I am capable of making great choices just for today.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

One study has found that people who tend to focus their minds more on what they are currently doing have longer telomeres than people whose minds tend to wander more.5 Other studies find that taking a class that offers training in mindfulness or meditation is linked to improved telomere maintenance.6

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.

Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don't see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.

Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.

Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.

Carelessness, when it's continual, is as bad as intentional jerkiness.

Ten paciencia contigo mismo y con los demás. No les critiques y de ese modo no regresará hasta ti ese karma, que se manifestará en otros criticándote a ti, algo que te puede apesadumbrar.

Lo que somos hoy es consecuencia de nuestros pensamientos de ayer», enseñaba el Buda Gautama.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.