Quotes About Mindfulness

Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

Life is such a beautiful thing. When you sit for a moment during the day and live that particular moment, everything seems perfect.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

I've never been drunk. I've never even had a beer.

You can only get a beginner's mind once.

Having the body you want begins with loving the body you have.

My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I don't think about tomorrow because I want to enjoy today and practice being the best me today.

My philosophy is to live below your means.

I've just aimed to go out with a clear mind; to try not to premeditate my shots and if I'm going to play a few big shots I try to have a few deliveries under my belt first; have my eye in a bit better.

Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.

It is simply a practical way to be more in touch with the fullness of your being through a systematic process of self-observation, self-inquiry, and mindful action.

No existe nada como "yo", "mí" o "lo mío" a lo que aferrarse.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

The deeper your concentration, the deeper the potential for mindfulness.

In attending to the breath with onepointed concentration, everything else falls away—including thoughts, feelings, the outside world. Samadhi is characterized by absorption in stillness and undisturbed peacefulness.

Touching soap bubbles is another lovely metaphor.

from our point of view, as long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded.

In all the meditative traditions of the world, visualizations and imagery are used to invoke particular qualities of mind and heart.