Quotes About Mindfulness

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.

Being reflective also means listening to your inner self with new ears. The truth is, we think we've heard our own story so much that we stop listening to it! We become like the people in our lives who we complain don't listen to us. With reflection, we listen freshly to our selves, the way we would like to be listened to. There

The slumber of the "I" is at the root of most suffering.

When you're inside yourself, you can feel happy, or angry, or terribly sad, or scared, or at peace. But whatever the feeling is, you feel "present." You feel like your feelings are coming from you. When you're caught in outside voices, however, you're most likely feeling awful, enraged, tense, anxious, or numb, though at times they can also make you feel excited or "high." But the difference is, the emotions feel like they're happening to you,

But feelings don't shift unless they're accepted exactly the way they are, neither more nor less. If they're intense, they're intense! Once they're accepted, they'll change into another form. But until then, they'll stick around. Bonnie,

We are consciousness wanting to expand.

I take a few deep breaths before I begin to speak, and I listen to the sounds in the room—this gets me focused and really present with my audience.

The biggest takeaway from them is that you can act with presence even when you don't feel 100 percent sure of yourself.

The moral of the story: don't react, especially when you are hungry and tired! Process the feedback at a time when you can take an honest look at what is being said.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Siempre hay flores para aquellos que desean verlas.

I put an apple on my table. Then I put myself inside this apple. What tranquility!

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about?

I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.