Quotes About Mindfulness

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

The warrior is Here, Now.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

Remember to take your time. There is no need to rush.

Be happy, be smart, be kind, and laugh every day — even if only maniacally

So many therapists tell their patients how to think and how to feel. That is awfully wrong" (Erickson, Rossi, and Rossi 1976, 101).

Wherever you are, make sure you're there.

your attention is the most valuable property you can ever possess.

Your normal state is hypervigilance. That's your baseline. What is not familiar to you is any kind of respite. If you catch yourself relaxing even for one moment, you always try to find some way to fuck it up.

Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive.

Notice the way the dirt feels under your feet, how great the air smells, how beautiful the trees are, how calm and majestic." He snorted, and she could tell he was fighting not to roll his eyes as he asked, "Calm as opposed to what? All the other trees that run around like headless chickens?

According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.

To make the most of my time in the outdoors, sometimes I'll treat walking through nature as more of a moving meditation. I'll listen to something slow and positive like Rising Appalachia, Trevor Hall, Nahko, or East Forest (all worth checking out if you don't know them), or simply put on a Pandora station for yoga workout music.

When you're always taking the next healthy step mentally and physically, you're as in charge of your life as you can be. But what happens after you take that action—how others react to you, whether you get that job or that award or that opportunity—isn't something you're in charge of. Wallowing in "what ifs" doesn't do you any good; in fact, it's a distraction from taking the next positive, powerful, passionate step forward.

To be anxious wasn't shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life's contradictions, more receptive to the true nature of things than everyone else. It was to be a person who saw with sharper eyes with more a active skin.

The point I'm trying to make is that we should let enlightenment take care of itself.

Think of your windshield as an energy source for your brain. Use pictures (the walls of many talent hotbeds are cluttered with photos and posters of their stars) or, better, video. One idea: Bookmark a few YouTube videos, and watch them before you practice, or at night before you go to bed.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.