Quotes About Mindfulness

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today's actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.

Old pond— a frog jumps in the sound of water

Words can be the tonic that kills regrets before they have a chance to grow.

Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Instead of asking "What is the 'right' or 'wrong' thing to do?" the practitioner asks, "What is the wisest and most compassionate thing to do?

Choose Your Attitude—The fish guys are aware that they choose their attitude each day. One of the fish guys said, "When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you being impatient and bored, or are you being world famous? You are going to act differently if you are being world famous." Who do we want to be while we do our work?

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Just let go of all the rest of the day, now. Let all of your worries roll off your shoulders; let's just enjoy being home in the body for the next hour and a half.