Quotes About Mindfulness

I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids.

There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Clothes should fit comfortably - not too tightly - so that you have space to move in and think freely.

The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it. There is a vast difference between the two. And it can make the world of a difference.

So the very way in which you experience life—whether you see it as sweet or sour, beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant—is your responsibility, as your ability to respond is what determines the nature of your experience.

Keep the body in such a way that it is not longing to avoid or escape life. Maintain it in such a way that it is longing to come awake.

When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about what I wanted to become in life. I only thought about how I wanted to live my life. And I knew that the "how" could only be determined within me and by me.

You are in the moment. There is nowhere else to be. Existentially, this is the only truth. It is just that you are not available to

What and why were never questions for me. How was the only question.

you will find that you have done the most idiotic and life-negative things when you were angry.

Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it?

Happiness is just your constant state of existence. And this is the end of suffering.

Dhyana or meditation, means to be beyond the limitations of your body and mind.

When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.

Everything that ever happened to you, you experienced right within you. Light and darkness, pain and pleasure, agony and ecstasy—all of it happened within you. If someone touches your hand right now, you may think you are experiencing their hand, but the fact of the matter is you are only experiencing the sensations in your own hand. The whole experience is contained within. All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.

Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.

Make yourself the first priority.

How shall we go to sleep and wake up when we have no intention of sleeping or waking?

Those who attend to the good side of everything contemplate the good. Those who contemplate the good enjoy life.

How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.