Quotes About Mindfulness

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more.

She flicked off the TV.

enough is all that a person of wisdom needs.

Gently boiling potatoes make a sound not unlike a small stream moving quickly over rocks. I thought it would be perfect for one of those ambient-noise tapes: The Ocean; Wind in the Pine Trees; Boiling Potatoes. It was very soothing. I measured baking powder to its dulcet tones.

I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Life is too short to worry about what other people think

I am myself and I am here.

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work.

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.