Quotes about Mindfulness

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.

He who prays must be like a good, industrious barber who has to keep his mind and eyes precisely upon his razor and hair and know whether to cut or trim, lest by too much gabbing or looking about aimlessly, he slashes someone's mouth or nose, or worse, someone's throat.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Don't forget to love yourself.