Quotes About Mindfulness

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

It's easier to be a dog if one accepts there are many things that are incomprehensible and just concentrate on being happy.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there

What you remember saves you.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.

Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present. So

In a society that has become so oriented toward language as a way of representing truth, it is very possible to lose touch with your ability to feel and with it your ability to "remember" the shots themselves.

the key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

It's difficult to have fun or to achieve concentration when your ego is engaged in what it thinks is a life-and-death struggle.

Again focus your attention on the can; then let the serve serve itself.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.