Quotes About Mindfulness

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.

We spend so much time scrambling from one thing to the next, getting through it, getting to the end, and starting over again, that I would not forget to fully breathe in the miniscule moments of beauty and peace.

Way before puberty, before the journal, before the formulation of my life's mission, when I must have been eight or younger, I had a rule: "Think in complete sentences." No giving way to inner screams or sobs—just keep stringing out words in grammatical order. This was a way to keep from going under

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows: wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the habits of survival and love.

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what I just ran upstairs for.

She never wore a watch, and for this she didn't need one.

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year.

Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road—so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.

Too much adrenaline will age you before your time. I've heard that said. What I know for sure is, it will push you too fast through your day.

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

Barry Eisler

After all, to worry, at a minimum you have to care.

I was surprised at how much the genuine clothes made me feel like a monk. I would remember that—that the details mattered, not just in how you looked, but in how you felt, in the kind of unconscious vibe you emanated and that people might key on one way or the other.

The mindfulness he spoke of was called nen in Japanese—an acknowledgment, an appreciation, of the importance of small things. The things that make living more worthwhile. And that, in my work, make it more probable, as well.