Still Learning: Everyday Mindfulness, Part 2

Still Learning

Part 2 of Memorable Quotes from Everyday Mindfulness: 365 Ways to a Centered Life

Part 1 can be found here

"The peace you seek begins with you. When you consciously and consistently choose peace in your words and actions, more peace will appear in your life."

Jenni Young

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

Lao Tzu

Do Less
"If you do less, you can do those things more slowly, more completely and with more concentration. If you fill your day with tasks, you will be rushing from one thing to the next without stopping to think about what you do. It's a matter of working out what's important, and letting go of what's not."

Take a Walk
"Solvitur ambulando is Latin for 'it is solved by walking.' ... go for a walk, preferably somewhere away from the crowds. It is an excellent way to calm the mind, gain new perspective and facilitate greater awareness."

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness isn't about getting anywhere else."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Your experience of life isn't based on your life, but on what you pay attention to."

Gregg Krech

"Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process."

Neale Donald Walsch

Say a Selective 'Yes'
"Today only say 'yes' to people and situations that support your wellbeing."

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

Eckhart Tolle

"You can't calm the storm...so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass."

Timber Hawkeye

"All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -- all forms of fear -- are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence."

Eckhart Tolle