Quotes About Mindfulness

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

Goals flow when you play with a smile and don't think too much.

I don't smoke. I don't drink.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.

I have not yet got one good reason why people smoke in life!

When we interact with others from a place of compassion without expectations, things are set up to go pretty smoothly.

Even if you're having a snack, enjoying it in a beautiful teacup or on a lovely plate makes it feel like more of an event.

You cut up a piece of fruit, peel it, put it on a dish, and top it with something fun, and it feels like a real snack, instead of just walking down the street while peeling an orange and eating it: you're not actually taking a minute to enjoy that snack.

Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it now. I love it now. And I am grateful for it now.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.

At least until we learn to eat more slowly and attend more closely to the information of our senses, it might help to work on altering the external clues we rely on in eating on the theory that it's probably better to manipulate ourselves than to allow marketers to manipulate us.

I could, like some of the meat we were cooking, relax into it, clear my mind of competing desires & give myself over to the work... This time became a kind of luxury. And that is precisely when I began to truly enjoy the work of cooking.

DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE. No, a desk is not a table.

ordained Zen monk

BE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO TAKES SUPPLEMENTS

DON'T LOOK FOR THE MAGIC BULLET IN THE TRADITIONAL DIET.

DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE.

Michael Pollan

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.")

awareness changes the situation; any action carried out with awareness is transformed through awareness itself.

The more you play the victim, the more of a victim you'll become.