Quotes About Mindfulness

Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration — and get between you and it.

The Camino is a form of extended walking meditation, a practice in many traditions. "Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet," explains the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.[14] "We don't need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.

The focus must be on the walk that is life with its string of present moments.

He taught that to be at peace, we must accept the impermanence of life and existence.

This discipline helps us work on mindfulness—living in the present as opposed to the past or future—which studies consistently find leads us to be happier people. But it also helps us to make the decisions that truly expose our best selves.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things. Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh explains this in his book The Miracle of Mindfulness:

Finally, obsessing over the future squanders the present.

Why? If we are thinking about the past or future, "we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.

Remembering that life won't last forever makes us enjoy it all the more today.

You can say this, too, but you need to start chipping away—managing your worldly wants—before more time passes.

Only to be mindful, therefore, is to be truly alive.

researchers have long found that social comparison lowers our happiness.[29] But you hardly need a study to tell you that—just spend a few hours browsing Instagram and see how bad you feel about yourself. This is because you are comparing your success with your perception of others' success, as depicted in information of dubious accuracy. Nothing good comes of this.

Rule 5. Tune out: Disconnect more from the unproductive debates.

Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Quality is the Buddha.

I have to be very diligent about making sure I'm taking care of my body and my mind, because if I'm not, the quality of my decision making goes down.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.