Quotes About Mindfulness

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.

Embrace the sacredness of existence.

Do not compete with anyone.

Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. —Anonymous

There are great reasons to fear what happens if you don't create a robust social schedule for the rest of your life or practice mindfulness meditation for the rest of your life.

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.

Do one thing at a time

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.

I didn't want to die, but I wanted to take my brain out of my head for a while.

For a depressed person, there's something reorienting about a crisis. It reminds you there's a world outside your head. Instead of fretting over the future or stewing over the past, you have something new to put in the brain.

One can make a day of any size.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Asserting requires action. Self-worth is an active process, not a passive state. When we start asserting our worth, we do healthy things like eat well, exercise, and consciously choose people and activities that are good for us. We do a couple of things each day to improve our lives—because we are already worth it.

Much of what torments us is often just flickering images, in particular the unfavourable assessments about life (and ourselves) that we make. As we watch that self-critical movie in our minds, we reproach ourselves over and over. Self-acceptance is about quitting this shabby movie theater and stepping outside into the sun.

You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain When it falls slow and free. Imitate the habit of twilight, Taking time to open the well of color That fostered the brightness of day. Draw alongside the silence of stone Until its calmness can claim you.

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

Take time to see the quiet miracles that seek no attention

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

You should always except the present company.

The number one joy indicator, the one thing that will predict whether someone feels joy in their life or not, is the practice of gratitude.