Quotes About Mindfulness

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

In a classroom, when it's silent, they're thinking. You've got to give them time to think.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

When you have no idea how to surrender and you're tied up in knots, JUST BREATHE!

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.