Quotes About Mindfulness

Live with high intention and low attachment

Aikido," my teacher had said again and again, "is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people, you're already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it. —Thaddeus Golas, twentieth-century author and philosopher

A powerful exercise for building your appreciation muscle is to take 7 minutes every morning to write down all the things you appreciate in your life. I recommend this as a daily ritual for the rest of your life; however, if you think that is excessive, at least do it for 30 to 40 days. It will create a huge change in how you see the world.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Not being clear about what you want and making other people's needs and desires more important than your own is simply a habit. You can break it by practicing the opposite habit.

Forgive and Move on As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. ISABELLE HOLLAND Award-winning author of 28 books

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your work, don't think about the fruits of your work'.

And belief is a choice. It is simply a thought you choose to think over and over until it becomes automatic.

You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).

Don't rush to your death.

The key was to keep your eye on the ball and take it one event, one day, one run at a time. Just make it to breakfast. Then to lunch. Keep moving forward.

Reece's time with the bow was not so much about hitting the target as it was about the discipline of the art. It was a meditative state where any outside influences and distractions ceased to exist.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

As you become more intimate with your suffering, your heart grows tender.

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.

Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love – or any other experience – must take place in the present.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.