Quotes About Mindfulness

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

If each person attains inner peace through meditation and develops love for all, it will not be long before peace prevails on our planet.

If you don't go within you go without.

In meditation we turn off the channel of the world and switch on the channel of God.

Meditation helps us attain inner peace. When our soul contacts the Light beyond, we are filled with a total tranquility and fulfillment.

And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so.... But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

When pleasure follows the temptation and could have been avoided but was not, there is always some kind of sin according to the amount of time it is dwelt on and the pleasure taken in it.41

Which of us can live uprightly and perfectly even for one hour, an hour free from fruitless talk and careless work?17

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.