Quotes About Mindfulness

One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I admire.

The happier you are, the less you need.

People worry so much. Just enjoy your body. That you can love. And you're alive.

Part of my being on this earth is to connect with and bring joy to people wherever I am. My hope is that I can encourage people to approach yoga more as a "free-me" practice than a "fix-me" one; a way to discover the truth of who they truly are so they might rest in their true nature, which is basic goodness. -Linda Sparrowe

Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?

You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.

The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

A large color plate of a cat statue caught my eye and I gazed at it for several moments, my mind empty of thought. Without an ego, one simply looks. The image of the cat, entirely whole and entirely static, is a signal to the mind to come to rest. There is no immediate sense of beauty, only the act of seeing.

Don't belittle today's moment—the "now"—by trying to move into another metron prematurely

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Life isn't a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced.

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.