Quotes About Mindfulness

If I were a perfect person, I would be bowing continuously. I'm not, though I pause wherever I feel this holiness, which is why I'm often so late coming back from wherever I went.

Let me     keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be     astonished.

If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more. And anyway I was so full of energy. I was always running around, looking at this and that. If I stopped the pain was unbearable. If I stopped and thought, maybe the world can't be saved, the pain was unbearable.

It is what I was born for— to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world— to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant— but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations.

Leonardo da Vinci: And now my friends I know the secret. Jack: You do? Leonardo da Vinci: Yes, the secret to happiness is available to all of us, every hour of every day. Young, old, rich, poor — everyone can choose to find happiness in this way. Annie: How? What's the secret? Leonardo da Vinci: Curiosity

Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies? It is, of course, possible that I seem strange. You may be thinking, Wow, that Mary Roach has her head up her ass. To which I say: Only briefly, and with the utmost respect.

Para aproximarse a la perfección, un hombre debería conservar siempre la calma y la tranquilidad del espíritu sin permitir jamás que ésta fuera turbada por una pasión o un deseo momentáneo.

En fulländad människa bör alltid bevara ett lugnt och fridsamt sinne, och aldrig låta en passion eller en övergående önskning störa hans lugn

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.

Nada contribuye tanto a serenar la mente como una finalidad permanente, un punto en el cual el alma pueda fijar su atención.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.

Our body and soul are one, yet how amazing that our body may not necessarily know our soul!

When totally immersed in pursuits that you love, illness and pain won't distract you.

Just to live here and now—this is the true basis of human life.

Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka

There's no advantage to hurrying through life

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.

Practice being in the present moment, using intuition, and being curious when talking to strangers. 

were distracted by something and lost train of your thought because you weren't in the present moment. Maybe you just couldn't think of anything interesting, funny, or entertaining to say.

Instead of saying, "That's an ugly shirt. Why are you wearing that?", find one thing you like about it–maybe the color, maybe the way it fits the person, maybe how pressed it is, maybe the texture–then begin with that. You could say, "Cool shirt. What's that about?" The point is to find and focus on the positives, as opposed to the negatives of any situation.

Smile. Be happy with yourself–wherever you are. Think of something that makes you smile or something funny that will put you into a happy state of mind.