Quotes About Mindfulness

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Life means to be living.Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga- don't take a break.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.