Quotes About Mindfulness

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

What you had to say was important to this individual, and she or he wanted to listen. Just to be listened to can bring good thoughts to mind.

They know that what is really said and what we actually hear during a negotiation is far more important than what we allow ourselves to think while others talk. In order to blank slate effectively, the little voice in our own heads must be silent.

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy

Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right They just open their petals and turn to the light

And I wondered, who is it that's aware that I'm thinking? And suddenly I was thrown into this amazing feeling of freedom. I was no longer a fragment of the universe, I was the universe." ~Jim Carrey

You worry too much. Take a shower and get some sleep. You'll feel much better later.' She was precious, my wife. If she couldn't screw it or spend it, she'd sleep on it. And either way, wasn't it better than worrying?

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

No time is wasted time

Agility is more attitude than process, more environment than methodology.

Paint the painting in front of you- not the one in your head.

Unpleasant facts don't go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.

We are machine-centered in our thinking—focused on the optimization of technology and equipment—rather than human-centered—focused on the optimization of human alertness and performance.

The simple, almost embarrassing reality is that we feel too busy to search for meaning.

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

The minute it doesn't feel good, stop doing it. It's that simple.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.