Quotes About Mindfulness

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.

If you can't figure out something... don't watch what you think, watch what you do.

A friend had said to me once, 'Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.

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

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Os dois companheiros constataram filosoficamente que cada dia da vida das pessoas era, sem excepção, o primeiro dia do resto das suas vidas, embora todos estivessem geralmente demasiado atarefados para pensar nisso.

Les deux camarades constatèrent en philosophes que chaque jour était sans exception le premier du temps qui restait à vivre à chacun même si l'on était en général trop occupé pour y penser

Las prisas solían matar

Es agradable ser feliz, pensó. Y saberlo mientras lo eres.

Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily. The goal is to get to the root of the anger. Only when you understand the source can you find a solution.

Your mind should be like a room with many open windows," Bapuji told me. "Let the breeze flow in from all, but refuse to be blown away by any one.

Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?

All compounded things are impermanent!" "Everything bound up with pollution is suffering!" "All phenomena are devoid of self!" and "Nirvana is peace!

In solitude, the mind and body Are not troubled by distraction. Therefore leave this worldly life And totally abandon mental wandering.

28. Anger, lust, these enemies of mine, Are limbless and devoid of faculties. They have no bravery, no cleverness; How then have they reduced me to such slavery?

Do not be downcast, but marshal all your powers; Make an effort; be the master of yourself! Practice the equality of self and other; Practice the exchange of self and other.

We should at once cast far away Our mind's attachments: Tinder for the fiery flames of hate.

For it's as if by chance that I have gained This state so hard to find, wherein to help myself. If now, while having such discernment, I am once again consigned to hell, I am as if benumbed by sorcery, As if reduced to total mindlessness. I do not know what dulls my wits. O what is it that has me in its grip?