Quotes About Mindfulness

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you trod you are always in the same place - in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow.

Just sitting quietly, doing nothing at all, your brain churns through more information in thirty seconds than the Hubble Space Telescope has processed in thirty years.

but I had reached the point where aches and blisters were so central a feature of my existence that I ceased to notice them.

Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen. Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen.

Anybody who tries to make you mad and stop you from thinking is not your friend. There's a lot to be said for thinking

The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.

The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, all we ever have is now.

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.

of our prayer and meditation.

God give me the courage and strength to know who I really am, to act accordingly in my life, and to refrain from diverting my time, energy, and interest into my character defects.

To become the person we can become, we must drop the rock—all the grasping and holding on to old patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling that are harmful to ourselves and to others.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing I want.

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Sometimes you have to be satisfied. You try hard enough. Don't be so self-critical; don't be so hard on yourself. (Shape your Self by M. Navratilova)

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

Just pour the tea, just look into the eye of the flower, just sing the song— one thing at a time and

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

The minute you can step outside yourself and look at yourself objectively, is when little voice mastery starts.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.