Quotes About Mindfulness

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson 3.1 SPIRIT-LED, NOT

Everything that we allow into our minds, hearts, and lives — everything that we spend our time and money on — has an impact on how we grow, or don't grow, spiritually.

The key to life is simplicity, The key to simplicity is wisdom, The key to wisdom is choice.

There is no need to worry. Because if something can be changed there is no need to worry and if something can't be changed there is no need to worry. Worrying is a useless waste of energy.

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

The avid walker Henry David Thoreau said in 1851, "The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

Happiness comes in small peaces. Stop looking for it, before you'll get lost. Don't expect too much, or you'll make room for disappointment. Take life as it is and you'll enjoy it!

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

We are always getting to live, as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, but never living. Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never brad and jam today.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

You can take this process a step further even without a mirror. Whenever you sense yourself slipping into a relational syndrome at work, immediately ask to see, in your mind's eye, what you have the opportunity to shift, embrace, or change. Then intend this change for yourself.

If there was a free-floating feeling, I took it on and tried to work it out.

During your nonwork time, consider doing energetic-based exercises, such as qi gong, yoga, Pilates, tai chi, or karate. When performing these activities, focus on your intention. Running, walking, or biking before or after work or during lunch break are excellent ways to release others' energies and rev up your own.

Now commit to noticing, supporting, and following your own feelings and beliefs.

Do the same when you sense twisted thoughts or worries. Isolate the belief, deciding which of the six fundamental misperceptions it reflects. Then mature that belief. What is a healthier and higher way to perceive yourself or this situation?

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Find the place where your feet know how to walk / And follow your own trail home." The way to your heart begins with your feet on the ground, quietly but intensely present.

There's always music," he replied, "if you listen carefully enough.

Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life—relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized—are essential.