Quotes About Mindfulness

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

We should witness all things non-reactively, especially our moods and emotions, neither condemning some nor holding on to others.

The bhakta's approach include repeating God's name, as in praying without ceasing "keep the name of the Lord spinning in the midst of all your activities." Washing or weaving, planting or shopping, imperceptibly but indelibly these verbal droplets of aspiration soak down into the subconscious, loading it with the divine.

Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions.

You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature.

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

Don't leave me here with my mind, I thought.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return

I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze.

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

I've never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they're like, 'Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,' but I'm like, 'I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,' so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

I want to tell all the youngsters in Nagpur and in the rest of India that sports is not merely about winning medals; it is about being fit and healthy. It is not about six-packs and going to gym, but exercising right and eating intelligently.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.