Quotes About Mindfulness

you can only know how you feel in the here and now, not how you'll feel years, months or even days down the line.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

Life punishes us for forgetting when we should remember, sleeping when we should be awake. As we sleep – a metaphor for unconscious living and lack of awareness – black snakes of negative, hurtful thoughts and feelings slither into our bodies and our brains, multiply due to our lack of attention, and wreak havoc with our peace. Looking at it another way, we all house black snakes in our bodies and minds that only suffering can bring to consciousness and expel.

Idet jeg kender mig selv og verden, har jeg ingen ambitioner og blander mig ikke i verden. Jeg søger kun sindsro og fred og jeg glædes over fravær af sorger.

Live your life as a lonely stranger. As a wanderer filled with awe and wonder. Leave everything as you found it. For none of it belongs to you. Let the events happen around you, knowing that none of them are happening TO You. And you will live an equanimous life.

Give time and money. And give it freely. But before giving it to another, give it to yourself. Spend lavishly, with your time and your money, on perfecting Yourself. Spend lavishly, with your time and money, on conquering Your mind. So that you may become a light to your loved ones, and the world.

If you are serious about living a peaceful life, drop all matters pertaining to the world, and pursue all matters pertaining to yourself.

That anger is not as reactionary as you think it to be. It is a weapon that you enjoy using in order to protect your ego and to bolster it.

Life does not happen around you. It is not a chronology of events. Perceiving life in this way keeps you on the edge of life. Ask yourself: What does it mean to LIVE? And you will discover that you've never really LIVED at all. Life is to be tasted. Drink it. Immerse yourself in it. And experience it for the very first time.

If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.

You experience them intimately. Without the intermediary known as thought.

If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience.

what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it's going to adversely affect the things over which you have control." His

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.

Introspection! I hate it!

I mind my own business. Too much of attention becomes intrusive at times.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.