Quotes About Mindfulness

Take one day at a time. Allow yourself to change.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

I'd like to make time slow down.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

Time is your most precious commodity and yet most of us live our lives as if we have all the time in the world.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.