Quotes about Mindfulness

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.

Even if it were possible for you to be remembered eternally, what is remembrance worth to you? Nothing. What, then, should we strive for in life? Right thoughts, beneficial actions, honest speech, and a cheerful disposition. These things are in harmony with, and flow from, the eternal Source of all.

How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.

I will not allow things outside my mind to affect my mind. I will not let external events shake and shatter my inner peace. I will not waste my energy on things outside my control

To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.

56. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly

This day I did come out of all my trouble. Nay I have cast out all my trouble; it should rather be for that which troubled thee, whatsoever it was, was not without anywhere that thou shouldest come out of it, but within in thine own opinions, from whence it must be cast out, before thou canst truly and constantly be at ease.

That thou mayest not die murmuring, but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.

Fear of death is fear of what we may experience. Nothing at all, or something quite new. But if we experience nothing, we can experience nothing bad. And if our experience changes, then our existence will change with it—change, but not cease.

If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past—can make yourself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness," and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present) then you can spend the time you have left in tranquillity. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you.

It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing.

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.