Quotes About Mindfulness

4—Prepare "Titanium Tea" (this name was a joke, but it stuck) (2 to 3 minutes)

Remember Who You Are

Most people exist between the on and off switch. They are unable to turn on and put out high power, and they are unable to turn off completely and enjoy true rest. To learn how to control your on and off

5—Morning Pages or 5-Minute Journal (5 to 10 minutes)

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment.

The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers the true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Create slack, as no one will give it to you.

While people often say there's not enough time, remember that you'll always have less attention than time. Full attention is where you do your best work, and everyone's going to be looking to rip it from you. Protect and preserve it.

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.

I use Intelligent Change's bound 5-Minute Journal and suggest it for convenience, but you can practice in your own notebook. It's fun and good therapy to review your p.m. "amazing things" answers at least once a month.

Buddhists believe that we are the cause of our own suffering. We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters, and that we can learn to control.

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau

Try one or more of Chade-Meng Tan's suggested exercises, starting on page 154. They are simple and brilliant. I practice a few times per week, often in the sauna.

The moment you start thinking someone else's gain is your loss, you limit yourself by thinking in terms of competition and shortages.

Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence, or a vice: It is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery.

3. Take One Breath a Day

Memento mori—remember that you're going to die. It's a great way to remember to live.

2. Loving-Kindness and the Happiest Day in 7 Years

but you can start with a cold water "finish" to showers. Simply make the last 30 to 60 seconds of your shower pure cold.

Be the silence that listens." –Tara Brach

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?