Quotes About Mindfulness

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

I want you to value life. Yours and others. More than you ever have before.

The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.

Self-liberation' implies the instantaneous dissolution of whatever enters into awareness.

There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you know that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world.

I only wish that I could have more confidence and try to forget all my silly preconceptions, misconceptions, and just live. Just live. Just. Live. Just live till I die.

I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to do fewer dumb things. I need to avoid making emotional decisions and swinging at bad pitches. I need to think!

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

In the simplest terms, the more of yoga is a life of ease, contentment, and purpose.

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

If suffering is ubiquitous in life, the withdrawal from and avoidance of suffering is accordingly the withdrawal from and avoidance of life. You

anxiety is out of place in the present moment. It depends on the past and the future for its existence. This understanding matters if you hope to let go of your struggle with anxiety.

What Jeremy likes about showers is the way you can stand there, surrounded by water and yet in absolutely no danger of drowning, and not think about things like whether you fucked up on the Spanish assignment, or why your mother is looking so worried.

I did ask her last week why she needs to do meditating when her life is so totally unstressful, and she absolutely burst out laughing for some weird reason.

The body becomes what the foods are, as the spirit becomes what the thoughts are.

We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty

If God seems far away, who moved?

You can travel without moving.

Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.