Quotes About Mindfulness

When angry, count to Zen.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

When one is painting one does not think.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant