#mindfulness

By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #god #meditation #mindful-eating

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#mindfulness #wisdom #inspirational

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present. ↗

— Allan Lokos

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Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#mindfulness #present #life

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead. ↗

— Ajahn Chah

#life

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#life

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#aware #mindfulness #moments #life

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart... ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#buddhism #mindfulness #attention

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#psychology #guilt

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing. ↗

— Lisa Wimberger

#mindfulness #neuroplasticity #spiritual-growth #inspirational