Quotes About Mindfulness

Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

Focus comes as an effortless connection to your being through pure fascination for this moment.

Silence is not something you do. Silence is something that comes to you and that Silence is a space of wonder.

Thinking is a spontaneous flow of recognition.

I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

There's only one thing holding America back from realizing her full glory. Ready? You want to write this down? No? Okay, here it is: We need to stop taking ourselves so seriously.

He told himself to slow down to appreciate the moment, and he started walking faster to appreciate it sooner…. Photos. I need photos!

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

There is no reason to have something taking up space in your closet that does not make you feel good. These items must go. Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.

No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.

I have no time for fad diets.

I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.

I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.

I stay in my little bubble - that is what I try and do. There is always noise out there and distractions, but you just have to block all that noise out.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.

When I practice there's a bunch of noise going on, people will talk, so I don't really have mouse ears for the most part.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.