Quotes About Mindfulness

What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man"s well being.

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Look, don't kill that fly! It is making a prayer to you By rubbing its hands and feet

Non scordare: noi camminiamo sopra l'inferno, guardando i fiori.

Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges; it doesn't make any sense to do it.

I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

Well, you don't really forget the crap, do you? ... You might put a blanket over it & push it to the back of your mind, but that doesn't really make it go away.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

Our eyes and ears are two of the main gateways to our souls. It is vital that we steward what we hear and see so that seeds of deception do not get planted in the soil of our souls.

Taking in the good, whenever and wherever we find it, gives us new eyes for seeing and living.

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family even though you've had a long day.

I've come to believe that our capacity to reach beyond ourselves—experiencing mystery or being present to others—is dependent on how fully we are planted in our bodies in all their flaws and their grace.

Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.

comparison was the thief of joy, as Teddy Roosevelt had once

Karigan, meanwhile, only half-listened, her mind wandering to thoughts of her pillow. She loved her pillow, and it loved her back. It was so soft with its downy filling, so comfortable.

What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends. The more attention you give them, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in you bedroom closet when you are getting out of the shower.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

Running has taken me in and continues to comfort, heal, and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a good runner because I am me; I am a good me because I am a runner.

If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.