Quotes About Mindfulness

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

The Now is not an ultimate state to be realized but rather a continuum to be lived.

That is, you can't get outside the present to make it an object of thought.

Keep a journal of disappointments, failures, and self-destructive actions. It's important to write this down because these are the kinds of things your self-serving bias will want to forget or minimize.

Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle.

and relationships in the here and now.

we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

there is no joy without gratitude

holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

Happiness is not yesterday; it's from now on.

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?

Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ?

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.