Quotes About Mindfulness

Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother.

Wish' and 'want' trip the feet, but 'is' makes the path smoother. -lini

If we let ourselves get lost in the shuffle of daily life, as we hurry along we end up knowing more about our shoes from looking down than about the stars—or life's unseen possibilities—from pausing for a few moments here and there to gaze upward and beyond … and adjust our course accordingly. My

You must be present to win. The more you attend to the moments in your life with consciousness, the more aware you will be of the opportunities to move toward what you want, and the more able you will be to direct your actions toward surpassing the best and reaching what's possible.

Don't be so easy on yourself, it said.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Lo primero que piensan casi todos los empleados cuando les hablo de llegar a ser empresario y echar a andar un negocio o invertir en bienes raíces, es: "¿Y qué tal si cometo un error? ¿Qué pasará si pierdo dinero? ¿Qué pasará si fracaso?" Esta mentalidad es lo que impide que la gente sea rica.

Just be an observer, not a reactor, to your emotions.

Personal self-discipline is the number-one delineating factor between the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

How does the man accessing the Warrior know what aggressiveness is appropriate under the circumstances? He knows through clarity of thinking, through discernment. The warrior is always alert. He is always awake. He is never sleeping through life. He knows how to focus his mind and his body. He is what the samurai called "mindful." He is a "hunter" in the Native American tradition.

Stop it! Do not think of things that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.

Whenever you're in a stress situation yourself—and there's time, of course—do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you're observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on good rather than on time....

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

This forest silence improves anyone.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality

Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.

It's important now to just live with this and not fight it mentally…mind control….

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.