Quotes About Mindfulness

When life gets too cluttered, we neglect the important things.

It's the little details in life that make all the difference.

Give yourself time for those things that are most important in your life!

Take a little time to make ordinary things extraordinary.

Lightening up every day is a great way to travel through your life journey too.

Today is a gift; take pleasure in unwrapping it!

Enjoy that special place.

There is nothing in the universe but this. I smile. I do not talk to people. I just breathe and stare and exist.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It's a mistake of emphasis.

One cannot dwell on these things, these echoes of what might, in some other age, and in some other body, have been; one must attempt to deal with what is, or else go under, or go mad. And yet--to deal with what is! Who can do it?

They who listen to only one bell hear only one sound.

To saunter is a science; it is the gastronomy of the eye. To take a walk is to vegetate; to saunter is to live.

Speed thy way through the luminous spheres; behold, admire, hasten! Flying thus thou canst pause or advance without weariness. Like other men, thou wouldst fain be plunged forever in these spheres of light and perfume where now thou art, free of thy swooning body, and where thy thought alone has utterance. Fly! enjoy for a fleeting moment the wings thou shalt surely win when Love has grown so perfect in thee that thou hast no senses left; when thy whole being is all mind, all love.

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…" (p. 141).

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

You have to take responsibility for listening.

That's because you think about everything in words ... You can go around and around the same question all you like, and never find an answer. I know that's how you cope, how you get through time, so I've never thought it was immature, or unhelpful. But there's another way of doing it: to sit with an empty space, and just look at it, without thinking anything, just enduring. Some people can do that.

Be sure to keep your tummy war, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. That is what makes the life I have now possible.

I realized that I'd never appreciated how peaceful and precious my life had been before.

cerchiamo di ridurre il tempo passato a guardare cose che non vogliamo guardare o fare cose che preferiremmo non fare. Limitiamo le ore trascorse inutilmente. .... Rallentiamo il ritmo, e prima di addormentarci ripensiamo a ognuna delle cose che abbiamo fatto.