Quotes About Mindfulness

When we are focused constantly on the next thing—the next dress, the next car, the next job, the next vacation, the next home improvement—we hardly experience the gifts of that which we have now.

In our relationship with money, more is better distracts us from living more mindfully and richly with what we have.

In the pursuit of more we overlook the fullness and completeness that are already within us waiting to be discovered.

Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we're already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds race with a litany of what we didn't get, or didn't get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.

I may not be gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. If — and only if— I equip myself with predetermined biblical procedures that I can rely on when I start to feel the great unglued coming on.

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

away from things that aren't beneficial for me.

Thought for the Day: I have to make the choice every day to interrupt my fleshly tendencies of yelling and getting angry over minor things.

Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As

the only way to diminish our regrets is by making decisions that lead to peace.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

The short time we actually focus on today's journey is often wasted on complaining, grumbling, wishing to be in a different place, or simply and mindlessly going through the motions of life.

We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.

But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices

We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.

The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

Don't let today's reaction become tomorrow's regret.

When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?

God has given me power over my food. I hold the power -- not the food. If I'm not supposed to eat it, I won't put it in my mouth.

When a special occasion rolls around, I can find ways to celebrate that don't involve blowing my healthy eating plan.

I am made for more than a vicious cycle of eating, gaining, stressing...