Quotes About Mindfulness

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.

She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.

But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.

I can only grow to what I will be from what I am, and where I am, so discontent is quite useless. Much more sensible to accept the one and love the other.

I was thinking of moments of respite. One can't get the most out of them unless one treats them as one treats the next thing; as though it were the only thing. I mean, if you think about the toothache that has just stopped, it so easily becomes the toothache that is going to begin again, and all your peace is lost.

When you take things personally, she knew, the world becomes very small. It is you and nothing is smaller. When you manage not to do that, the world opens wide.

El objetivo de la meditación es obtener un estado más relajado y libre de estrés. Es llevarse a uno mismo adentro de su mente y enfocarse en canalizar y concentrar en pensamientos que calmarán su mente. Es una manera de silenciar los pensamientos que distraen

Generalmente hablando, existen cinco tipos de meditaciones: meditación de atención plena, meditación espiritual, meditación enfocada, meditación del mantra y movimiento de meditación.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

Ich habe festgestellt, dass es gefährlich ist, sich an Dinge zu gewöhnen.' 'Gilt das für alles?' 'Ja, für alles. Man nimmt, was immer es ist, einfach nicht mehr wahr, und, schlimmer noch, man hat die Illusion, etwas geschafft zu haben.

He who angers you conquers you.

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

Don't keep searching for the truth; Just let go of your opinions.

The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. —RICHIE HAVENS

If only people realized what they had in life," she told me one day, "they would not be able to contain their joy!

We can try to quiet the noise in our minds, listen for deeper instructions, and leap without fear beyond what we think is so. In

What ensued will go down in the record of my heart as one of those rare times in life when you finally rest—when you put down the burden of striving and a sense of well-being spreads like honey into every corner of your consciousness. There was nowhere else to go, nothing to do, no one to be—just now, just this precious day, these shared breaths with a friend.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can't stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.

take fifteen to thirty minutes to help him transition from the activity of the day to the relaxed state needed for sleep.

To start loving myself fully, I had to stop criticizing myself completely.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now

Qué va a ocurrir ahora? Nada. Pues todo ha ocurrido ya. El tiempo entero es ahora, y el tiempo no puede ofrecer nada mejor. Nada puede ser más ahora que ahora, y antes de ahora nada era. No hay hechos menores en la vida, sólo existe un hecho, éste, único y colosal.

Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.