Quotes About Mindfulness

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

To go faster you must slow down.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

I'm learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.