Quotes About Mindfulness

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

It is so easy now to never get bored because we have our phones with us all the time and we are always looking at stuff. I think when we get bored we are the most creative.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Before every game, I have this 30-second routine where I'll pretend like I'm doing some stupid stretch, but what I am really doing is just closing my eyes and taking in the moment, imagining every arena and every city I've been in, smelling all the smells, seeing all the fans.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I personally didn't subscribe to drastically changing our lives as a result of having children. Our children are our world, but I truly believe that it's healthier to invite children into your life instead of making everything about them.

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

I don't even drink coffee. I try to avoid becoming reliant on any substance.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.