Quotes About Mindfulness

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.

I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.

Something I have learnt from my past trips is, however tired you are, make sure you make the most of the moment and the place you are in. The regret of missing out on things kicks in later on.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I always consider what I am doing at the moment the finest thing in my life. I find there's more happiness that way than in forever taking old triumphs out of trunks and dusting them off.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Don't look too far ahead or too far back, just stay in the moment and try to do the big things in football, which is winning trophies.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.

I have no trouble sleeping.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.