Quotes about Mindfulness

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.

If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. It stops us from taking anything for granted. It has also taught me about living in the immediate moment.

Time isn't any more important than size. All that is required of you is to be in the Now, in this moment which has been given us.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention