Quotes About Mindfulness

It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.

I save my panic for small things.

breathe slowly, deeply. Let your limbs go limp. Relax your neck. Relax your shoulders. Relax your arms: first the fingers, then the wrists, then the lower arms, and then the upper. Relax your feet. Relax your legs.

Anger is such a waste of time and energy. It takes a monumental effort

The word worry is derived from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "to strangle or choke." The stranglehold of worry keeps a woman from enjoying a life of contentment and peace.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.

Never allow yourself to complain about anything — not even the weather. Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else. Never compare your lot with another's. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise. Never dwell on tomorrow — remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours.1

Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Never run if you can walk, never walk if you can stand, never stand if you can sit, and never sit if you can lie." "Never talk if you can listen

We need what I call "Grace Time," a term that is more descriptive and positive than "down time"—to revive, to recover our energy, to daydream, and to putter. Without it, we endanger our energy supply and court disaster in our health.

One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .

I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

SpecWar superstuds were not Arnold Schwarzenegger. They were Buddhist monks.

In contrast, I'm trying to get you to look inward. Focus on steady breathing, slowing your heart rate and lowering your blood pressure, which in turn, eases your nervous system and increases your threshold for pain. Hence, the deep-breathing techniques used for centuries by laboring mothers and yoga devotees.

If you won't take your body seriously, how is anyone else supposed to?

We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.