Quotes About Mindfulness

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

The Buddha's last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.