Quotes About Mindfulness

A writer's job is to make the ordinary come alive, to awaken ourselves to the specialness of simply being

It is good to pay attention to our dreams. For a period of a few weeks, write them down each morning. You don't have to do anything else. Just write them down. They have their own magic and will bleed into your waking life. While

You must be a great warrior when you contact first thoughts and write from them.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the heart wants to express more.

it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

Relax as you read and absorb it, as by osmosis, with your whole body and mind. And don't just read it. Write. Trust yourself. Learn your own needs. Use this book.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Anything you do fully is an alone journey.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.

Connection with self never felt so good!

If you're having a bad day, CHANGE YOUR MIND and have a good day!

Breathing for Warriors,

Everything else can be taken from you, but this power to choose what you think, what you remember, and what you believe about yourself is untouchable.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: 'What's good in my life?' and 'What needs to be done?

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!