Quotes about Mindfulness

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb "rest," as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.

May the God of peace make you whole and holy, may you be kept safe in body, heart, and mind, and thus ready for the presence. God has called you and will not fail you" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

Know that things are okay as they are. This moment is as perfect as it can be. The saints called this the "sacrament of the present moment.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.