Quotes About Mindfulness

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

I like people who don't take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

Let grief and guilt stay not too long as houseguests.

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

There is no way to peace; peace is the way. There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. If you are determined, you can do it with your breathing.

If you want to be happy, be grateful.

Even happiness worries sometimes.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

One can only see clearly If one is going slowly. Quick motion creates life-blur.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

I believe that yoga has provided me with energy and focus that I would not have possessed otherwise.

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day.

Downward-facing dog helps us to paws and reflect.

Yoga-ish, adj. liking the idea of yoga but only showing up for Savasana

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is a healing salve.

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence."

My yoga instructor pissed me off, so I offered him my special "moon salutation." Then I slammed my chakra shut right in his face.