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Quotes about Mindfulness

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.
— Aldous Huxley
Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don't select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It's like that poem of Wordsworth's, 'Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.' In
— Aldous Huxley
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
— Donald Miller
Meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.
— Donald Whitney
Joy does not come to you if you are spiritually passive; rather, joy is cultivated, but joy is cultivated by things you do.
— Donald Whitney
You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.
— Donald Whitney
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
— Dorothy Day
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
— Dorothy Day
MAKING WISE DECISIONS: When GOD brings something to your mind-----Don't let it pass without dealing with it.
— Charles Stanley
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
— Samuel Johnson