Quotes about Mindfulness

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Take time to be quiet.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.