Quotes About Mindfulness

So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.

That was something they taught you in anxiety therapy- the thoughts may come, but you don't have to chase them all. It was sort of the opposite of good detective work, in which you had to follow every lead.

WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.

She wrinkled her nose to dismiss the thought. This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety- thoughts may come, but she didn't have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go

When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment.

He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic. That part was an unknown of which he knew only that he must never see its root and never give it voice. He had lived through one dangerous moment which he could not allow to return.

La sabiduría reside en saber cuándo hay que recordar y cuándo olvidar.

In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort.

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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.

Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.

Be inspired but not proud.

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

You exist without the feeling of existence.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking.

What's certain is that I don't need the stress.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

As I watched the two of them disappear into dusk, I realized I had never noticed which way the river ran.

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.