Quotes About Mindfulness

am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

Do everything without complaining and arguing. —Philippians 2:14

Multitasking is a lie

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Even if you're sure you can win, be careful that you can live with what you lose.

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.

That simple. You lived or you died. And in between the two, if you kept your mind open and aware and listened and smelled and watched... In between you learned. from Northwind

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

Creative thinking, working with your mind, that's my number-one prescription for longevity. If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Oil the saw, sharpen axes, Learn the names of all the peaks you see and which is highest- there are hundreds- Learn by heart the drainages between Go find a shallow pool of snowmelt on a good day, bathe in the lukewarm water.

White clouds gather and billow. Thin grass does for a mattress, The blue sky makes a good quilt. Happy with a stone underhead Let heaven and earth go about their changes.

What I like most about Buddhism really is its fearlessness. So much of what warps people is fear of death and fear of impermanence. So much of what we do is simply strategies to try and hold back death, trying to buy time with material things. So at its best Buddhism provides people with a way of seeing their own frailty: you need less in the way of material objects and fortresses around yourself.

Once we begin to think clearly about neuroplasticity we are inevitably drawn to the question of what we want from life – what we consider to be a good life. Each of us must answer that for ourselves. But we are best able to do so when we understand the threats that some substances and behaviours pose to our capacity to choose the lives we want.

In my Paris apartment, when a neighbor drives nails into the wall at an undue hour, I naturalize the noise by imagining that I am in my house in Dijon, where I have a garden. And finding everything I hear quite natural, I say to myself: That's my woodpecker at work in the acacia tree. This is my method for obtaining calm when things disturb me.

Knowing must therefore be accompanied by an equal capacity to forget knowing.

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

Fear is excitement without the breath." Here's what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.

Letting yourself savor natural good feelings is a direct way to transcend your Upper Limit Problem. By extending your ability to feel positive feelings, you expand your tolerance for things going well in your life. In

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can. As

With a strong commitment to inquiring into yourself, the universe does not have to use catastrophes to wake you up.

One ought to drink, I think, when one is cheerful already. Otherwise nothing but more sorrow is poured into the cup.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. But the present now is different from the present then.