Quotes About Mindfulness

She could hear her hair growing.

Modern travel would be totally delightful if only I could learn to enjoy boredom, discomfort, and fatigue.

I admired Grenville's ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he'd been raised to it, but I'd never learned the art of it, and doubted I ever would.

you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.

spine tips your head forward," he said to me. "So when you look straight ahead it's like looking up at the ceiling for anyone else. Try to swallow while looking up: you'll choke once in a while.

and loss of focus.

The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer. *

I try not to think too far ahead. I don't think about next year. It's too depressing. I just think about next week.

A year ago, he would have eaten to the point of nausea. "But now they're, I don't know, they're too sweet.

It requires vigilance over nutrition, medications, and living situations. And it requires each of us to contemplate the unfixable in our life, the decline we will unavoidably face, in order to make the small changes necessary to reshape it. When the prevailing fantasy is that we can be ageless, the geriatrics uncomfortable demand is that we accept we are not.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what they are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do.

Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.

SEEING THE TRUTH MEANS looking at everything for the first time, every time.

Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here.

You know, sometimes just giving yourself permission to feel any emotion without judgment or censorship can lessen the intensity of those negative emotions.

To stop drinking, all you have to do is sit. In 100 percent of the documented cases of alcoholism worldwide, the people who recovered all shared one thing in common, no matter how they did it: They didn't do it.

Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.