Quotes about Mindfulness

The silence was an intense roar.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head

Life is holy and every moment is precious.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.