Quotes About Mindfulness

Rushing saps the strength, whether you are in Delhi or New York.

The moment you bring attention, you are creating something, and creation has life and energy.

Awareness brings life.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

Work honestly, meditate daily, meet people without fear, and play.

If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed, at hours of meat, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.

I had trouble focusing as a child and I still sort of do, but when you climb and you're going to die if you fall, you have 100 percent focus. That's a rarity in life and a gift to have something that brings you that clarity.

I don't want to be in any rat race.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

People can press your buttons and make you react... but it's not under your control.

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.