Quotes About Mindfulness

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

When I work I forget all the rest.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.