Quotes About Mindfulness

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: It is built on our thoughts, it is made from our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with evil thought, pain follows him, just like the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the cart. If a person speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves...

If you get it out of the way, it leaves time for more interesting things," Angela said. "If you don't get it out of the way, then you feel distracted and a little guilty and the interesting things aren't nearly as interesting because you're worrying about what you should be doing rather than what you are doing.

Life, even one as long as mine, is all about being grateful for the little things.

The real payoff of a yoga practice, I came to see, is not a perfect handstand or a deeper forward bend—it is the newly born self that each day steps off the yoga mat and back into life.

Whenever we find ourselves ensnared in negative behavior, he suggests, we should increase the amount of time, thought, and energy we direct toward positive behavior.

When nonviolence in speech, thought, and action is established, one's aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one's presence. Yoga Sutras

We are able to hear only what we're ready to take in. As productivity guru David Alan points out - information is always available, but WE are not always available to the information.

Oftentimes when we need yoga the most, we want it the least.

Renunciation on its own has no staying power. You can renounce bananas all you like, but if you continue to live in your banana home on your banana street, if you keep your job at the banana warehouse and hang out with your banana-gobbling friends, you'll be eating bananas before you know it. Practice is doing the work. It is following up your intention with action.

It is easier to act yourself way into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action.O. H. Mowrer

On a basic level, there are three general methods to simplifying your life: stopping expansion, reining in your routine, and reducing clutter.

In this way, "seeing" as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

We see as we are," said the Buddha

Certain activities—sleeping, eating, reading, socializing, wandering—will become a fixture of each day. This is good and well (routines make your day more efficient, after all), but you should be careful not to let your days or destinations blur together. Once this begins to happen—once you feel yourself getting jaded to the long haul—it's time to mix your travels up a bit.

Nevertheless, it's important, even on a personal level, to not just look at things as we travel but to see things for what they are.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

the insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

Absorption, being caught up in, wholly involved, and so on, are used commonly to describe the state of the artist or scientist when creating or even the child at play. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

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For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it's useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

Cocoon Wrap yourself in a cocoon of warmth where loving thoughts reside with tender graces. Create your own peace. Hold to it fast. Always.