Quotes About Mindfulness

It's really not about doing, it's more about being. You might find it relaxing," said Pooh. "I know I do.

multitasking isn't actually possible. In the same way that we can only focus on one sense perception, we can really only focus on one task at a time.

Mindfulness also means experiencing the present moment without self-conscious judgment.

Focus totally on the routine, and thoughts of results are less likely to imperil any of your transitions.

The past is history, the future's a mystery. Being alive in this moment is a gift—that's why they call it the present." Whether it's between shots, between holes, or between rounds, don't forget to smell the flowers along the way. This is the most important transition, because it is only in the present that we can connect with our nature of basic goodness and simply appreciate being alive.

Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.

It's not hard to be me, thought Pooh. Just be Here and Now, and be Kind.

Only God can give us credit for the angry words we did not speak. —Rabbi Harold Kushner, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, page 187

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.

Live each day as if it were your last, 'cause I'm gonna kill you but I'm not super-good w/schedules

I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind. If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now.

Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets.

I remain very aware of my failures and often run them obsessively through my mind, which is a failure in and of itself.

Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop. Turn off that cellphone, computer, and remote control. Open the door, then close it behind you. Take a breath offered by friendly winds. They travel the earth gathering essences of plants to clean. Give it back with gratitude.

Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are.

If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now. Forever will be a day like this Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone – its value is incontestable.

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.

Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

My wish is to live a life in which emotions come slowly as clouds on a calm day. You see the approach, you contemplate the beauty of the cloud, you observe it passing, you let it go. You do not dwell upon what you have seen, you do not regret it, you are content to understand that the identical cloud will never come again—no matter how beautiful, unique, you do not weep at its loss.

Happiness is being in one place. The picture fixes you in one place.