Quotes About Mindfulness

It's only in silence that people can truly hear themselves. ... Even great joy is sometimes best expressed through silence.

transition back to the world outside? The second people felt alone, I noticed, usually in the space between things — leaving a therapy session, at a red light, standing in a checkout line, riding the elevator — they picked up devices and ran away from that feeling. In a state of perpetual distraction, they seemed to be losing the ability to be with others and losing their ability to be with themselves.

I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you. Namast'ay in Bed . . . that's exactly how I feel!

If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck place, in a perpetual regret

You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.

Relax your expectations, in fact, purposely lower them so low that you feel excitedly naughty about showing up to perform your work with reckless abandon. If that's hard, open to doing it that way just 5%. Deliberately perform below your skill-level to get started and to see what ideas fall out of a relaxed approach. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

Peace is only a thought away.

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.

To the right mind, no time exists other than the present moment, and each moment is vibrant with sensation. Life or death occurs in the present moment. The experience of joy happens in the present moment. Our perception and experience of connection with something that is greater than ourselves occurs in the present moment. To our right mind, the moment of now is timeless and abundant.

An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds . Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.

We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. This is all there is.

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

But you need your happy place. If it's not here, you have to go to it. And I need to let you." She paused, let out a soft broken breath. "You taught me that.

If you don't leave your past in the past, it'll destroy your future. You've got to live for what today's offering, not for what yesterday took away from you.

I know we're supposed to be grateful for all the mistakes we make, but mostly I'm just grateful that thoughts don't appear in bubbles over our heads.

How am I supposed to make big decisions when I still have to sing the alphabet to myself to alphabetize stuff?

Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business." Hud

How am I supposed to make big decisions when I still have to sing the alphabet in my head to get to the right letter?

If it didn't bring her joy, then forgetaboutit.

Simply put: once you accept you're old—you become old. Your