Quotes About Mindfulness

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

Bringing back stamp collecting and bringing back bridge seems like a pretty good way to fight the modern world.

You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'

'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

An angry man is unfit to pray.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.