Quotes About Mindfulness

How difficult it is to see even what's in front of one's eyes. All we possess is the present, and the present endlessly dissolves into the past." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Happy is the man whose wants are few. The fewer the wants, the happier the person. One

The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.

Those who chewed thirty-five times per bite ended up eating about a third of a cup less pasta than those who had only chewed ten times per bite.

People were given soup, but half were given small spoons and told to eat slowly, and the other half were given big spoons and told to eat quickly, and an amazing thing happened: The slow-eating group not only ended up feeling more satiated, but they did so after eating less soup.2977 They felt fuller eating less food.

Try eating with chopsticks. Even in experienced hands, they tend to slow eating rate.

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it keeps people from even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week. Why not scale it down to once a month or reserve it for special occasions? We can not let "perfect" be the enemy of the good. It's really the day-to-day stuff that matters most. What you eat on special occasions is insignificant compared to what you eat day in and day out.

Under stress, we tend not only to eat more food but worse food, and we seem to deposit more fat in the worst place, in and around our abdominal organs.

study when chewing a bite thirty-five times was shown to beat out chewing only ten times and resulted in 12 percent fewer calories eaten at a meal.

Cognitive defusion was tested head-to-head against cognitive restructuring in the same chocolate experiment, and those who had gotten an hour of defusion instruction had three times greater odds of remaining "chocolate abstinent" in the face of a week of constant temptation.

Experiments simultaneously varying bite size and oral exposure time with solid food found the same phenomenon: It's better to nibble and savor than chomp and gulp.

Every time you put something in your mouth, it's a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in there

The Olo believe that's why we sleep in the first place—so we can listen to and deal with the other folks who're living in our heads.

Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than the present moment. We forget and thus they forget to relax, to find spiritual solitude, to let go of the past, to quiet ambition, to fully enjoy the eating of a strawberry, the scent of a rose, the touch of a hand on a cheek...

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

when we have cultivated a healthy space within, we can hear, see and feel our intuition more clearly.

Allow there to be space inside so that you can hear the messages clearly.

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

Holding on brings tension, letting go brings peace. We already know it, we just don't trust it.

When you are on the path, the attraction of drugs and alcohol dramatically diminishes, because you realize how much they knock you around and disturb your clarity, focus, and work flow.

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.