Mindfulness Quotes

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes" "A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain." "Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action." "Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted." "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you" "True life is lived when tiny changes occur" "To think is easy To act is hard But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking" "To learn to think is to learn to live" "When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen" "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life" "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware" "To make living itself an art, that is the goal" "Make each day your masterpiece" "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are" "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays" "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose" "A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul." "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts" "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise" "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."