Quotes About Mindfulness

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.

We're sort of in an age now when we have too much information, which can take us down a specific path. You're getting too much information too quickly to be able to slow it down and parse it out.

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

I don't go to parties in general.

I really don't go to any parties.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

I was never really into partying.

I don't go out partying at all.

I don't go out partying.

I love being able to pass from a feeling of euphoria to one of calm and serenity.

For me, I always think somebody's open. That's the biggest gift and the biggest curse. If I see somebody have a step, I'm passing it. But sometimes, you've got to really think and make the right plays.

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

A meaningful life depends upon a sense of aliveness and presence, both of which spring from intimate contact with internal body states.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment - now!

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

what need of wealth and riches when he could lead a simple, contented life