Quotes About Mindfulness

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.

Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite a long way towards helping insomnia.

I definitely think when I'm feeling super down or having tantrums or not able to participate in any activities, I have to control myself. I have to tell myself, 'No, focus, focus, focus, do this, do this, do this.' Instead of shutting down, I encourage myself to think positively and move towards the light.

I am drawn towards the power of spirituality and derive a lot of energy from it.

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town.

Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me.

If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.