Quotes About Mindfulness

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: "Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Who is rich?" asks Ben Zoma,17 and he answers, "One who is content with his lot.

WHY IS IT THAT when there is ice on the streets, everyone walks slowly and carefully out of fear of slipping physically, while in their daily lives, people are not afraid of slipping spiritually? —RABBI ISSER ZALMAN MELTZER (1870–1953)

Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.

Awaken to the good and give thanks.

Who is rich?" and then answers, "He who rejoices in his own lot.

Take time, be exact, unclutter the mind. —Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, the Alter of Kelm

Equanimity is a quality of being centered in yourself, though at the same time being exquisitely sensitive to the forces that are at work all around, or else you will be vulnerable to being tossed around by the sorts of unexpected waves that crash in on every life.

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

You cannot take credit for your blessings, but you can certainly commit to not f---ing them up.

I'm glad you live in the moment. That's what I envy about dogs.

perhaps that's the secret. Perhaps what people should really ask is, "are you content?" It's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.