Quotes About Mindfulness

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." –Marcus Aurelius

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I change my physiology. If I am near waves, I go surf them. If not, a short, intense kettlebell workout, a bike ride, a swim, a cold shower or ice plunge, Wim Hof or heart rate variability breathing [see Adam Robinson, for a description]. It's remarkable how the mind follows the body.

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature—your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary.

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.

This is very similar to Derek Sivers's (page 184) "Don't be a donkey" rule. In a world of distraction, single-tasking is a superpower.

Qué tal si me relajo? Por una vez, haré el mismo trayecto en bici sin ir a paso de tortuga, pero a la mitad de mi ritmo habitual". Monté en la bici y fue agradable. »Hice el mismo recorrido, y noté que me erguía, y que miraba más a mi alrededor. Contemplé el océano, y vi que había delfines saltando en el mar, y llegué hasta Marina

At least three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question:

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" —SENECA

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the bicep when I do my curls. I have my mind inside the pectoral muscles when I do my bench press. I'm really inside, and it's like I gain a form of meditation, because you have no chance of thinking or concentrating on anything else at that time.

If you are accustomed to working 50 weeks per year, the tendency, even after creating the mobility to take extended trips, will be to go nuts and see 10 countries in 14 days and end up a wreck. It's like taking a starving dog to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It will eat itself to death.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?'" —Seneca

Lo primero que se me viene a la cabeza es la "humildad".

Idiota? Por supuesto [comerse solo una tarta gigante empalagosa sólo por que él la había hecho]. Creo que no se puede ser más idiota. Este es un ejemplo ridículo y a pequeñísima escala de lo que continuamente hace la gente a mayor escala con los trabajos: sufrimiento autoimpuesto que puede evitarse... ¿Qué tarta de queso te estás comiendo?

Wait But Why? [written by Tim Urban] They have a chart of the weeks of your life. I have a wall chart of boxes representing every year of my life: ten years across and nine rows down. Then things are plotted on it, like average life expectancy in the U.S. I always thought it was kind of cool, because it puts time into a visual format, and I'm a visual person.

But I don't just think gratitude. I let gratitude fill my soul, because when you're grateful, we all know there's no anger. It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

many forms of meditation in the world. Like when I study and work really hard, where it takes the ultimate amount of concentration, I can only do it for 45 minutes, maybe an hour. "I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the muscle, I have my mind inside the