Quotes About Mindfulness

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.