Quotes About Mindfulness

Where Am I Touching?

While "intention" is a magnet that attracts what we want, "letting go" provides the space for our desire to manifest.

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." —Carl Jung

Working Hard Doesn't Mean Working All the Time.

The power of gratitude derives from a universal law: You draw to yourself whatever you dwell on.

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali

It is in a total state of involvement that one finds liberation from time.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

Of course we want to perform the poses with a focus on intelligent mechanics of body movement ... and push ourselves to the point of discomfort in order to create new results. But, at the same time, we want to be detached from insatiably perfecting that form and instead seek and create a depth of experience.

When you do that, you are operating from your center, from cause rather than effect.

The yogis say you can never step into the same river twice, because the current is always shifting and changing. You've never stepped into this exact river before today. Not with this body, not with today's particular energy, with the specific number of bites of breakfast in your belly, with the earth tipped on its axis. Perhaps up until now you haven't had a breakthrough in this pose, but that was then. What's possible today?

Yoga is a dance of dealing with what is, and allowing yourself to fully experience whatever you're experiencing right here, in the moment. In life, we so often resist what we don't like or don't want to do. Here, on your mat, is a safe opportunity to see what's on the other side of that. Physical asana is a measure of some higher possibility. Put your attention on what you want to have happen and be for it, and watch the magic unfold.

We live in a world that teaches the importance of ambition, efficiency, expediency, getting things done to produce the quickest results. It does not teach or encourage us to relax and just be where we are. In fact, if we are not crazy active and doing a million different things, we get labeled as lazy or unambitious.

Give up the stories you've made up about what's "true" about your physical potential and just be with your breath and in your body, feeling what you feel. Give up trying to collect things in your practice. Give up the thought that whatever is happening within your body right now should not be.

You have thoughts, but you are not your thoughts—and they definitely don't have to run the show. You

Principle I: We Are Either Now Here or Nowhere

It requires something extraordinary for any of us to really get to a true and connected relatedness to our breath, and the impact of it on our bodies, energy, and movement. As

Yoga is a perfectly imperfect practice, and the very next day we may hit a plateau that can slow us down or even stall us indefinitely. You know you have flow in your practice when you reach such a plateau and don't automatically react with frustration and anger.

Drop into your body and give up any need to exert effort, to control, achieve, or accomplish. Give up any "shoulds." Give up your to-do list. Give up any remaining resistance. Give it all up to get empty.

the end, if you dedicate your energies to detaching from struggle, giving up fear, taking right action, and practicing true patience within yourself, you will find that all the pieces of your life begin to radiate with the luminosity of whole and true health.

As you sit there dealing with your own mind, remember this: when interacting with thoughts in your head, or when interacting with another person in life, and something is thought or said to you that upsets you and makes you want to fight or flee, wait twenty-four hours before you respond.

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.