Quotes About Mindfulness

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles...

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Make a list of what is really important to you. Embody it.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

A day older than yesterday, a day younger than tomorrow. Beyond that, I don't think much about it.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.

As awareness grows, appreciation grows too. As appreciation grows, so does empathy.

When I was growing up under Tom's (Tom Brown, the Tracker) watchful gaze, I often wondered why he seemed so distant and quiet so much of the time. This was why. He was stilling the chatter, quieting his mind, connecting and listening: practicing the routine of invisibility.

if you learn to listen to the silence, you'll hear more of everything else.

In a culture in which "connection" usually refers to the strength of the cell phone signal, quieting the mind - even just sitting alone in the backyard, much less in the forest - can be a difficult rite of passage.

when we "lose our mind" and "come to our senses" in the fullest possible way, the chattering, texting, e-mailing, twittering mind will eventually quiet down and almost silence itself. This is a sacred and connected silence...It's like a deep, still pond reflecting the stars of the night sky. I believe this is the baseline for human consciousness, and I'm convinced that the birds are the best mentors in the natural world for bringing us to it.

Han tänkte: "Jag är här." Det är en stor och mäktig tanke. Han har upptäckt att han finns.

pasidaryt mažesniam reikia daug laiko.

Let us build our houses with our own hands. And grow the wheat, and bake the bread. Then we'll know what the earth is. Now, we turn the knob: the water runs. I have no idea from where or how. Electricity... We buy the bread: we don't know who bakes it, how, where. The same with our lives now. We live, but we don't know how, where, why. And it has no taste.

Aš turiu laiko - visas laikas yra mano, aš metais ži?riu ? gelton? liepos žyd?jim?, neskub?damas ir nesir?pindamas.

We believe you should throw out your Blackberry and go pick some actual blackberries.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Anxiety does not exist to control you. You exist to control it.