Quotes About Mindfulness

It is a very simple matter," continued Colonel Bradford, "to live simply in this highly complex world. Let the world be complex but let your diet, and all matters pertaining to your mental and physical wellbeing be simple.

His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.

He laughs and hugs me and says that I shouldn't believe anyone who tells me it's gonna get better. "Ride the wave," he says. "Don't wait for it. Don't fear it. Just ride it.

We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.

Alas, we can't control other people. We can only control ourselves.

When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy, integrated entity.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.

Don't worry about tomorrow or let the past ruin today.

You don't get the guarantee of tomorrow. Today is all you have. Don't waste it worrying. Enjoy it. Don't go stumbling up to the Pearly Gates in your spotless martyr robes. Go sliding up there in a worn-out, used-up body, screaming to the top of your lungs, 'Hallelujah, I made it and I've used everything I had while I was on earth, so open the doors and let me in!' That's the way to live.

A common-place book is a technology of resistance against getting lost on the urgent surface of life.

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

Wake up! Keep waking up! Wake up more and more often!

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

You have to take care of your heart. But at what cost?

Letting ourselves be where we are leads us someplace new. Keeping ourselves locked where we wish we were, leads to stagnation.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is.

What was it I wanted to tell you? Was it the new T-shirt-ready saying I came up with: "There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed"?

It seemed to calm me, getting anything that might be chaotic behind the eyes onto the page in front of me where it could do me less harm. Along the lines of the saying, "Better out than in," though that refers to vomit. Maybe more like, "Better an empty house than an unhappy tenant." Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind—though some would argue—but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.

You know what would be so cool? To get to the end of my personality and just lay in the sun.

There is no room for demons when you are self-possessed.