Quotes about Mindfulness

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Be thankful for what you have—you'll end up having more.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.

Don't say to yourself, "But God is not talking to me right now." He ought to be. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold. Your mind will no longer be starved, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.

Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the Word He puts in us? Is it the devil? No—"the cares of this world" (Matthew 13:22). It is always our little worries.

It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work