Quotes About Mindfulness

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Whatever your bottle of liquor is, nothing is worth picking it up, and losing your self.

The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.

You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

It wasn't that eating was so great--it wasn't--but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything that was decidedly less than okay.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

I have spent less time thinking about my husband than thinking about lunch.

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Happiness doesn't just happen. I'm convinced that for the most part, those who focus their minds on it, obtain it.

I've learned that patience is something you don't "have"; you must create it yourself. It isn't a commodity doled out to all infants in varying amounts at birth. You learn (and earn) patience by making time for it, calming yourself down, relaxing, and letting it happen. The more you practice patience, the more you have. And the more you have, the easier it is to summon when you need it most.

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Compulsive calmness indeed. When I was quitting smoking, I did this sort of thing all the time: jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, needlepoint, knitting, solitaire. They are all forms of self-hypnosis, I think, and they make me dreamy and blank.

Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.

Every day we have a choice about whether we react or respond to life. The first step in that direction is becoming self-aware and aligning our conscious and subconscious minds, where our Imposters live. In short, it's about becoming aware of our Imposters (negative thoughts in our heads).

We all need to do some amount of emotional and spiritual housekeeping. When we commit to that process, we evolve. We grow. And we get more in touch with our Authentic Souls.

Her mother existed entirely in the moment. And she made every moment sparkle.

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the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating. -Ella Varner

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.