Quotes About Mindfulness

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

The problem with the internet and the way that we communicate on the internet is - I mean it's obvious to everybody - but sometimes we don't stop and take a breath and think about it.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

Don't expect to much of the future. Live in the present and let the future evolve as it will and trust.

Full and aching and tingling and spiraling, hanging on for dear life, letting go of every other thought and focused only on one thing—let it go, let it go, let it go.

Concentrate on the good you can do and don't gnaw on the hopeless cases. It'll just make you sad.

Tell you what, Sunshine—I'm upright, walking around, healthy, have a brain to think with and the option to enjoy my life. Well, I'm not going to take that for granted.

You don't need a lot of money to live a full life—all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a good attitude. Books are free at the library, but a fertile mind takes practice.

And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

Breathing: the miracle cure everyone's been looking for." -Lane-

the goal is not to get rid of technology, but to limit its use "to restore a more integrated life, where you have the physical, the social, the mental, and the aesthetic aspects of life blending as seamlessly as possible.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult. Bring snacks and a book to read.

night when I go to bed and every morning when I wake up, I use a method called the Heart Lock-in." "Really? Heart Lock-in?" "Don't knock it until you've tried it." "Okay, okay," I said. "How does it work?" "It can take from five to fifteen minutes, and you need to find a nice quiet spot

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

What people think of me is none of my business. Rodney Crowell paraphrasing the Greek Stoic Philosopher, Epictetus 55-135 AD

Mindful walking reinforces the sense of "me" walking "with" awareness. An exercise more aligned with wise view would be to walk within awareness, allowing awareness the full and true embrace of the person, with the person no longer in control of awareness.

When we believe we are not where we need to be for spiritual growth, we relegate our daily life to a secondary tier. We energetically pull out of our spiritual life and wait for the appropriate secluded moment in order to fully engage.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. Just take a moment. This will give your mind a steadiness and your breath a gracefulness.... There's so much to let go of, isn't there? Your nostalgia and your regrets. Your fantasies and your fears. What you think you want instead of what is happening right now. Breathe.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

What we're trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.