Quotes About Mindfulness

Most people find it hard to do two things at once, like complete a sentence and avoid a palm heel to the nose.

With the loss of self-consciousness, the landscape opens.

To go in search of what once was is to postpone the difficulty of living with what is.

What we need is to discover the continent again. We need to see the land with a less acquisitive frame of mind.

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions.

But by restricting our options, we will be able to choose less and feel better.

So to make the task of lowering expectations easier: Reduce the number of options you consider. Be a satisficer rather than a maximizer. Allow for serendipity.

Learning to accept "good enough" will simplify decision making and increase satisfaction.

But if you've been convinced by the arguments and the evidence in this book, you now know that choice has a downside, an awareness that should make it easier for you to adopt, and live with, a "two options is my limit" rule. It's worth a try.

it's impossible to be a maximizer about everything. The trick is to learn to embrace and appreciate satisficing, to cultivate it in more and more aspects of life, rather than merely being resigned to it. Becoming a conscious, intentional satisficer makes comparison with how other people are doing less important. It makes regret less likely. In the complex, choice-saturated world we live in, it makes peace of mind possible.

So even before your eyes are more than half open—long before you've had your first cup of coffee—you've made a dozen choices or more. But they don't count, really, as choices. You could have done otherwise, but you never gave it a thought.

On the other hand, the more we think about opportunity costs, the less satisfaction we'll derive from whatever we choose. So we should make an effort to limit how much we think about the attractive features of options we reject.

We can mitigate regret by Adopting the standards of a satisficer rather than a maximizer. Reducing the number of options we consider before making a decision. Practicing gratitude for what is good in a decision rather than focusing on our disappointments with what is bad.

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The best you can do is keep yourself from brooding about it.

drink alcoholic beverages ("Be ye not drunk with wine

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Even when lightning flashes inside them... we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my mind.

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

Learning itself is a present, you know.