Quotes About Mindfulness

What is going on now?" What is your body saying? Then

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on secondary questions (usually related to controversial and sensational issues) and very little time exploring the primary questions about our brief stay here on earth.

Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

However, do not confuse distraction with avoidance. When you avoid a distressing situation, you choose not to deal with it. But when you distract yourself from a distressing situation, you still intend to deal with it in the future, when your emotions have calmed down to a tolerable level. The

Remember, sometimes pain can't be avoided, but many times suffering can. Take

and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

I don't want to think anymore. Thinking prevents you from living.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

There is a possibility for change because all emotions are fleeting.

I have also come to understand that although some people are naturally happier than others, their happiness is still vulnerable and incomplete, and that achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.

As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace.

Demanding immediate results is an aspect of unsteadiness of mind or laziness.

He understands that all beings have the power to free themselves from ignorance and unhappiness, but that they don't know it. How

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves. LUCA AND FRANCESCO CAVALLI-SFORZA

Do not breathe simply to exist.

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense.

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.