Quotes About Mindfulness

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

the greatest challenge comes when we are least conscious of the presence of a challenge.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. Everything pauses while you do familiar things with taps and kettles; it allows you to catch your breath and become calm.

Time snapped back into one piece. I was wholly in the present, alert and questioning.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

Nothing doesn't happen all at once. It starts slow, so slow that you don't even notice it. And then, when you do, you banish it to the back of your mind in a hail of rationalizations and resolutions. You get busy, you bury yourself in your meaningless work, and for a while you keep the consciousness of Nothing at bay. But then something happens and you're forced to face the fact that Nothing is happening to you right now, and has been for some time.

anger you have locked up in you, and that's healthy. I just think you could be a little more judicious

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without even knowing it.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use.

It's called mind over matter. If we don't mind, it doesn't matter." When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

The past cannot be changed by worry or guilt; therefore, both are useless. - Celeste Talbot

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred.

Porque lo interesante de la meditación –y esto podría ser una segunda definición– es crear en uno mismo una especie de testigo que espía el remolino de pensamientos sin dejarse arrastrar por ellos.

Yo, por ejemplo, anticipo mucho y recuerdo poco.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Life is consciousness.