Quotes About Mindfulness

The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.

Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing your clutter can completely transform your entire existence.

Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, 'What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?'

When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Hard wood grows slowly. Be thoughtful about the shape you want to grow into, and be mindful that there is no shortcut to strength and character. Have the patience to allow yourself and your goals to develop.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

When angered I ask myself, "If I removed my anger or hurt from this situation and acted out of love and unity—if I acted from my highest self—what would I do now?

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

I think the most important thing for you to do in the meantime is live. It is a very involving job, which takes much concentration and practice.