Quotes About Mindfulness

beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That

As well as the way he always said Itadakimasu, quietly, before he started eating.

pensé en silencio.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

When you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.

These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

We can protect life, practice generosity, behave responsibly, and consume mindfully.

Every waking second is a chance to look past who you think you are right through to who you truly are.

There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.

Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.

E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.

What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going? Isn't there a chance of being surprised by what happens next? Better than that, what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward?

The miracle is not to walk on water but on the earth. —Thich Nhat Hanh

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are. When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am.

Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. I can stop what I am doing long enough to see where I am, who I am there with, and how awesome the place is.

NOT EVERYONE is able to walk, but most people can, which makes walking one of the most easily available spiritual practices of all. All it takes is the decision to walk with some awareness, both of who you are and what you are doing. Where you are going is not as important, however counterintuitive that may seem.

Reverence requires a certain pace. It requires a willingness to take detours, even side trips, which are not part of the original plan.

Yet even this turned out to be helpful, since recognizing my jerkdom is how I remember that is not who I want to be.

Come tell us what is saving your life now

Prayer, according to Brother David, is waking up to the presence of God no matter where I am or what I am doing. When I am fully alert to whatever or whoever is right in front of me; when I am electrically aware of the tremendous gift of being alive; when I am able to give myself wholly to the moment I am in, then I am in prayer. Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

I coped by finding a space where I could just…breathe.