Quotes About Mindfulness

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.

Every now and then, I have these moments where I feel somebody needs to be told to just stop. Sometimes, they would write nasty things, but generally, I just don't give them time and attention. I just skim and read but don't go through the comments completely.

I don't meditate anymore, and I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist nowadays, though I do chant mantras here and there depending on the situation.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

I'm not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.

I take care of my health. I nurture it.

Everyone should nurture the ability to laugh at themselves.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

There's something about beautiful moments in sports that alters our experience of time. And I'd say the same thing about poetry and gardening. Gardening slows me down. I want to stop and observe everything.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.