Quotes about Mindfulness

It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

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.

So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! 17 Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. 18-20 Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him. Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.

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

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

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad.