Effortless Mindfulness Quotes

#1. O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

Walt Whitman

#2. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.

Kenny Werner

#3. So they're the a priori principles of possible experience

Anonymous

#4. I was frightened by the optimism of adults, their stupid trust in science to treat a troubled heart. Afraid of their obsession with believing they have to treat troubled kids. I just wanted them to leave me alone, so how come they didn't get it? But that's the way it always is.

Natsuo Kirino

#5. She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

Dave Eggers

#6. Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.

Loch Kelly

#7. In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

Aman Jassal

#8. It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.

Teri Louise Kelly

#10. What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.

Helen M. Ryan

#11. He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.

C.P. Cavafy

#12. This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith.

Dylan Thomas

#13. Writers wake up the world.

A.D. Posey

#14. Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments ...

Seneca.

#15. You are already the awakeness that you seek!

Loch Kelly

#16. It is often said that freedom doesn't come free. It is also said that true heroes can come from both the most unlikely and obvious of places. I believe that. And so this book is dedicated to my heroes who fight overseas and at home.

Kelly Moran

#17. The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.

Loch Kelly

#18. In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.

Billy Graham

#19. Can anything matter, unless there is Somebody who minds?

Ronald Knox

#20. We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.

Loch Kelly