Quotes About Mindfulness

Awakened mind (App):A state of awareness that is not on automatic pilot and can use the power of intention to drive attention to shape the firing of neurons in new and helpful ways. A state of clarity and focus that make choice and change possible.

Mindful awareness / Mindful (Res):Awareness of present-moment experience, with intention and purpose, without grasping on to judgments. Traits of being mindful are having an open stance toward oneself and others, emotional equanimity, and the ability to describe the inner world of the mind.

Sometimes we need to name it to tame it, to look head-on into the plateaus and peaks of life and loosen their rigid hold as we soften the peaks, broaden our plateaus and relax back into

higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

You can do several things at once, but only if they are easy and undemanding.

if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score and governs what we learn from living, and it is the one that makes decisions. What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

I'm finally having my TV removed and replaced by a tropical fish tank, which I hope will provide more interesting viewing.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I still get excited by the same clothes I did when I first started going to vintage shops. But I think as I get older, I realize how much nicer it is to have 10 great outfits rather than 1000 tops and dresses that are all in a pile I cry in every time I get ready to go out.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

The virtual world can never be a substitute for real world experience. And the more it takes over our lives, the more we forget to feel the sun on our skin, the more we forget that there is an entire universe to be discovered even during a 10 minute walk to work.