Quotes About Mindfulness

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

À pessoa que descansa em si não lhe interessa o tempo; a evolução não deve levar o tempo em conta.

The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.

Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let every one spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.

One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Pravé umÄ›ní", kÃ…â"¢i?el Mistr, "je bezú?elné, bezcílné!

That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!" It took me a considerable time before I succeeded in doing what the Master wanted. But—I succeeded.

Tikrasis menas yra betikslis, nes?moningas! /.../ Jums skersai kelio stoja tai, kad turite per daug klusni? vali?. Manote, kad tai, ko nepadarysite, ne?vyks.

But he who has it, said the Master with a subtle smile, would do well to have it as though he did not have it.

What are you thinking of?" he would cry. "You know already that you should not grieve over bad shots; learn now not to rejoice over the good ones. You must free yourself from the buffetings of pleasure and pain, and learn to rise above them in easy equanimity, to rejoice as though not you but another had shot well. This, too, you must practise unceasingly – you cannot conceive how important it is.

Forget about deciding what's right for each other. Here's what you need to be concerned about: that you don't get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I'm convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.

Rather, our eyes have become lazy, our attention spans atrophied. Our self-preoccupation had reduced us to tunnel vision.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Consciousness, not commitment, was a better, more accurate, less time-entangled word to

An hour of contemplation is preferable to a lifetime of ambition, though neither produces tangible results.

I don't believe in saying anything unless there's something to say. As time goes on, the less I speak. Boredom, depression, equanimity.

It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

He thinks I don't pay attention. He has been talking and I have been silently naming the scents of everything we are crushing under our feet as we walk.