Quotes About Mindfulness

When you chase success, your spark burns out quickly. When

He paid attention to what was going on around him. Not for what he could get out of the situation. But for what he could give. This is the difference between a life of success and a life of significance. It's the difference between a quick win and a true victory.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

John P. Forsyth

When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts. It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

We tend to view compassion as something we project outward—that is, as a presence or gift we offer to another person or on behalf of a suffering world. This keeps compassion as an act of superiority, something the healthy offer the sick. We rarely offer the gift of compassionate presence to our own person.

Don't trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

Become less suspicious of joy.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.

Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.

lo que no se hace consciente, se manifiesta en nuestras vidas como destino».

Watching television as a passive viewer is like going on vacation for a while, and leaving all of the doors to your house unlocked. Any crap that wants to get in - will.

Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?

You know, prayer and d-d-demons." My mother was quiet, thinking over his statement. At last, she said, "What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? If you prefer to use those words, it's all right by me. So I make the same offer. If you like, we can meditate together on this fear you can't control." Heekin's

To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have...we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us. We respond and are responsible. To think other people are responsible for our feelings is to inhabit a billiard ball, inanimate universe.

I prepare for death by living.

Reminders are for those who cannot remember. Memories are for those who want to remember.

Today I had set aside for spading. Now there is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. You turn a spade full and then carefully knock all the lumps to pieces and you go on for hours without thinking about anything.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.