Quotes about Mindfulness

I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence.

Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes. We are all

Still, there's no harm in putting a full stop to one's disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the wall... Here is something definite, something real. thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is proof of some existence other than ours.

Knitting is the saving of life.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.