Quotes About Mindfulness

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Stay calm and aggressive.

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.