Quotes About Mindfulness

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

The day is conscious of itself.

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

Avoid running at all times.

Be at your best at all times.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

Dad," he began, "do you ever think —" "Nope," Eisenhower said quickly. "I try to do that as little as possible. Gets in the way of muscle development.

We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now." Isabel slapped the boy.

A 'why' is a dangerous thing," said Haplo. "It challenges old, comfortable ways; forces people to think about what they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. No wonder your people are afraid of it." "I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer," said Alfred, seeming almost to be talking to himself.

A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the days so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past and tomorrow is lived for today

Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras

Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.

Che cosa è il tempo, e perché deve considerarsi passato? Fino a quando viviamo esiste un solo tempo, il presente.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.

This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honourably, He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?