Quotes About Mindfulness

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.

Silence is safer than speech.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I don't spend a lot of money on myself, really.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I've spent half my life in gyms, if not more, and I love physical fitness and health; couple that with the fact that I love for people to be healthy, whether it's mentally, physically, or emotionally, and it's just a great opportunity for me to do something I love and have an impact on people's health.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

You have to deal with your emotions and not spike too much on the graph - not get too elated with the highs or too down with the lows.

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.

A lot of times life is spinning so fast around you that you kind of think it's out of control and that's when you need to slow down a little bit and take a break.

Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

Personally, I know how challenging it can be to find free time in today's uber-busy, espresso-chugging world to tend to our spirits, to nourish our souls.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

When your chest is open, and you're breathing deeply, it lifts your spirits.