Quotes About Mindfulness

I don't like to carry things in my pockets.

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

When I go out onto the pitch, I don't do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

If I get writer's block - this is going to sound funny - I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I'm cleaning my brain as well as my body.

Meditation helps me see things clearer. When things are going fast, it helps me slow them down.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

I don't like clocks.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.