Quotes About Mindfulness

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

He said he was learning to open his Chi and control it through his hands, which he can make become hot.

frees the body to heal itself. In taking away the fear, confusion and feelings of victimization so characteristic of TMS, we give the body a chance to do "its own thing.

The Healer Within by Steven Locke, MD, and Douglas Colligan (New York: Dutton, 1986).

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

I believe you should do three things every single day of your life," he said. "One, you should laugh. Two, you should think. Pause and think about your life. And third, you should cry. Get yourself into a state of emotion where you shed a tear. If you do all three of those things—laugh, think, and cry—well, that's one heck of a day." Eight

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up