Quotes about Mindfulness

Martha's problems, however, go beyond her busyness. I suspect that if Martha were to sit at the feet of Jesus, she would still be distracted by everything on her mind.

The late Dag Hammarskjöld, once the secretary general of the United Nations, suggested that we have become adept at exploring outer space, but we have not developed similar skills in exploring our own personal inner spaces. He wrote, "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."4 Most of us feel much more equipped to manipulate objects, control situations, and "do" things than to take that very long journey inward. Painful Honesty

Detachment is the great secret of interior peace.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

Arm balances, in general, are excellent for strength-building.

It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.

from our point of view, as long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.