Quotes About Mindfulness

Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you React to it, Stay Strong, Be Unstoppable.

When we take deep, long, slow breaths, we can actually stop the "fight or flight" portion of our nervous system (called the sympathetic nervous system) from overreacting to different types of stress. The sympathetic nervous system goes into high gear when our brain activates it in the presence of perceived danger.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

She let herself stray past the stage of sleep and even past the stage of remembering, and she wanders into the stage of soul-searching. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.

It's hard to think about nothing. I've tried it. You end up thinking about everything and getting stressed out. It's best to just think of one thing. A good thing.

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.

If you can bring some light of intelligence into your sexuality, that light will transform it.

Most of us travel through life with heavy, bulky emotional baggage. To our great relief, with meditative practices and their healing modalities, we can shrink this baggage to carry-on size.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. "If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

Daniel Wolf's advice—want what you have.

When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors

He has to keep his emotions grazing in the back pasture." Senator Elliott

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

As you think a thought, it goes out into the ethers, where it gathers energy and then returns to you. It parallels the weather patterns on Earth, where your negative thoughts go out and gather negative energy, bringing the negativity back to you on its return trip. So

Once upon a time, there was a Zen sign at every small railway crossing in America Stop. Look. And listen.

Now the spotlight comes on and I'm saying to myself, 'Earvin, you don't play the game above the rim. You play it cerebrally. You play it in an intelligent way and just be who you are.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.

If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts he has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts.