Quotes About Mindfulness

Breathing is our primary nonverbal language. Sharp, uneven breaths convey a message of stress even though someone might insist she is perfectly all right.

Like a Chinese finger puzzle made of woven straw, finding relief requires us to relax rather than pull in order to gain release.

Breathing is our primary nonverbal language.

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

Focus on what you have instead of what you don't have. It's a gorgeous day. I live in the United States of America. I have freedom. I can go to work. Nothing lasts and this, too, will pass." -- Chellie Campbell

Try to become aware of one feeling a day, keeping in mind that by doing so, you are building your data bank of self-knowledge

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .

Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.

You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.

Making the journal equal to the journey is simply a matter of shifting your intention: you're no longer traveling and keeping a log on the side, but embarking with a dual purpose.

Turning something into a ritual eliminates the question, Why am I doing this?

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer realizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake.

How can a guy hit and think at the same time

Calm down, you'll live longer.

When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. or wonder who, after all, you are.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

When you adopt a frugal lifestyle, start by re-examining your daily routines to make sure that you don't spend any more money than is necessary to get the job done—whatever that job may be.

When you're young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She