Quotes About Mindfulness

James Joyce described this relationship in the line, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

but it's also possible that the wrong kind of attention will lead you into unhealthy fears and attachments about how your body should look.

Spiritual life may initially be focused on self-transformation, but as mindfulness and compassion grow we naturally become attentive to the values of the society around us. When we do so, we can see how the popular promise of happiness through greed and excess consumerism is increasingly shallow and false.

When we live in our thoughts of the past and future, everything seems distant, hurried, or unfulfilled.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Then one day you will be sitting and fear will arise, and you will feel it and recognize it and think, "Oh, this is fear, I recognize you. Welcome back." Then it is as if the fear becomes one of your friends.

To start, meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say, "Stay." Does the puppy listen? It gets up and runs away. You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay." And the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and pees in the corner or makes some other mess.

Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way, is at the heart of meditation. After

The problem is, you think you have time.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

What you don't have to think about can't really get to you.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety." - Jack Nicklaus

In low levels of consciousness it is unwise to believe, trust or follow our thinking

I am tired of pursuing happiness. I want to breathe it in as ubiquitous as air.

Too often people are focused on the "urgent" at the expense of the important.

The passport to a better life is to think about your death occasionally.

Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things.

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

Life is too short to argue about time.