Quotes about Mindfulness

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.

The freedom to think involves the courage to stumble upon our demons.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts he has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts.

He who holds his tongue in check controls both mind and body. Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him.