Quotes About Mindfulness

I have no parents: I make the heaven and earth my parents. I have no friends: I make my mind my friend. I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy. I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor. I have no castle: I make immovable mind my castle. I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.

Everybody else seemed to be having a good time. She tried to remember what her therapist told her to do in situations like this.) Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides.

To be comfortable inside one's sadness is not valueless. This too will pass. All things tend towards transience, mutability. It is in such mindful moments, when everything is both held and released, that revelation comes.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

I must find peace in the only place possible in India. Within.

I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it. More than that, I wrote so I could say I was truly paying attention. Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.

I hadn't remembered that in decades. That particular quiet.

But to pay attention is to love everything.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

Be thankful for what is given. Caroline heard the words in her mother's voice. No matter if it is not enough, be thankful.

A woman can resolve that, whatever happens, she will not speak till she can do it in a calm and gentle manner

Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

If you focus on living well in the moment, you will never have regrets about yesterday.

She hadn't lived in the moment because she hadn't liked the moment she was living in.

You get through a second, and then a minute. And then another minute. You don't think about the length of the journey, you focus on each step. One at a time. And one day you'll pause and realize you're starting to enjoy the view.

Doing something for yourself doesn't make you selfish. My students tell me it's called self-care.

Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.

The whole world is medicine'. We can learn from everything that happens to us.

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.