Quotes About Mindfulness

Contentment is the only real wealth.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

The wealth cure is looking at your life step by step - making a diagnosis and saying, 'Am I using money or is money using me?'

I'm gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

My intention is never to use my head as a weapon.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Mind you, physical training doesn't necessarily mean going to an expert for advice. One doesn't have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Get out in the fresh air and walk briskly - and don't forget to wear a smile while you're at it. Don't over-do. Take it easy at first and build on your effort day by day.

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

I'll wear a crop top if I'm not loving my stomach because it kind of forces me to pay attention to it and to love it, really.

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Thinking of it now, I didn't do a thing for my wedding. I was sleepwalking through it at all.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.