Quotes About Mindfulness

Whenever you are playing or singing music, and you notice you're in a trying state, stop trying, and focus your awareness on a single element of your movement at a time. Observe your body, and watch it subtly shift to a more relaxed and accurate kind of performance.

you needn't be so busy fighting and punishing yourself.

When I'm with other people, I usually don't think about it. Sometimes, it catches me off-guard, but I usually don't. When I'm alone, it's all I can think about.

All our efforts won't make water any wetter.

To a talkative woman Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts

choose less and feel better.

Knowing what's good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about. So: Think about occasions in life when you settle, comfortably, for "good enough"; Scrutinize how you choose in those areas; Then apply that strategy more broadly.

But knowing what we want means, in essence, being able to anticipate accurately how one choice or another will make us feel, and that is no simple task.

to a person zoning out- "your display is on screen saver

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.

Seduto in silenzio, senza fare nulla, arriva la primavera e l'erba cresce da sola.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

Do not rely on the outer world as your measuring stick for your own spiritual growth. Rely on your response to the outer world to determine how much you have grown.

If you're going to be in a traffic jam, at least enjoy the flavor. Make some toast.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.

Live life as though you might die tomorrow. Do what you would like to be doing, and do your best each day.

The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

There are many situations in life where we don't think while behaving in a certain way. Then there are instances which leads to the realization that maybe this is happening because you had behaved in a certain way. This thought at times is self liberating, according to me.

I just go anywhere by myself. I don't even realize how big I am.