Quotes About Mindfulness

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them.

When I opened my gym, I got rid of the scales! Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object - every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn't care about you.

I guess maybe my method is to take self-care where you can - even if it is something sort of small and it's not a whole routine. It's this idea of resetting, shutting down, stepping away.

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

Zen would have our perception of the world, indeed our very thoughts, be nonverbal.

Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.

According to Ch'an (and Zen), understanding comes only by ignoring the intellect and heeding the instincts, the intuition.

the only way to really understand the message is to stop trying to "understand" it.

There is nothing difficult about the Great Way But, avoid choosing! Only when you neither love nor hate, Does it appear in all clarity. Do not be anti- or pro- anything. The conflict of longing and loathing, This is the disease of the mind. Not knowing the profound meaning of things, We disturb our (original) peace of mind to no purpose.

Zen art makes one aware of the work of art itself.

Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it.

...rousing himself from a reverie, which had degenerated into an absolute snooze.

All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.