Quotes About Mindfulness

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

Art is about paying attention.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.