Quotes About Mindfulness

When are you going to start saying nothing?

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.

She cut a small piece of the gravalax and put it on a piece of black bread, daintily spooned a bit of dill sauce onto it, and ate it like it was the last piece of food in the world. I tried to imitate her, eating so slowly, tasting the raw pink fish and the coarse, sour bread, salt and sugar around the rind, flavors and scents like colors on a palette, like the tones in music.

She's never where she is. She's only inside her head.

It was one thing to hope, but you had to take care of yourself in the present, or you wouldn't survive.

the gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.

She's never where she is," I said. "She's only inside her head.

It was one thing to hope, but you had to take care of yourself in the present, or you wouldn't survive.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Rest, yes. Sleep, no," I answered.

Unlike most politicians who speak only from their mind, Amar Singhji thinks and speaks both from his mind and heart.

Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and by sharing more without. Neurosciences and behavioural sciences increasingly corroborate this ancient wisdom - joy can come from giving, and unlimited happiness from bonhomie.

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

Lot of guys can take punches. The idea is not to take unnecessary punishment.

The inside of a house or apartment after decluttering has much in common with a Shinto shrine... a place where there are no unnecessary things, and our thoughts become clear.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

After your career, you go to matches, and you see so many unnecessary goals because a person is just looking where the ball is and not his opponent. Well, a ball alone has never scored a goal.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

I never really look back. My journey has been unorthodox in many ways. All I do is count my blessings and try to be as present as I can, and I'm thankful for every step of this journey.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.