Quotes About Mindfulness

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.

Do not bring violence to the sword. Do not bring heartbreak or anger or passion. You hold in your hand the steel of rationality.

Please don't joke and bleed at the same time.

starve my distractions and feed my focus

Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, Words, words, shuffling around in my head.

T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.

The mind is off duty but the body is open.

No person lives in the future. The present, the present, the present. Life keeps on being that.

The way in which we go to the grocery store may tell us everything about the way in which we live a life. The way we tend the life force in a plant may be the way we tend our own life force. We are exquisitely coherent.

Understanding the suffering is beyond me. Understanding the healing is, too. But in this moment, I am here. Use me.

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all that rushing.

I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.

Without proper breathing, the yoga postures are nothing more than calisthenics.

Theodore Roosevelt's quote: "Comparison is the thief of joy.

Every morning at breakfast, or whenever you have consistent time together, cultivate a family practice of gratitude. It can be simple: "Today, I'm grateful the sun is out." "I'm grateful that I'm healthy." "I'm grateful that I get to see my best friend tonight." If you're not together, text with her about it, or do it on the phone. A reminder of what she has can help mitigate the longing for what she doesn't.

The online tarot reading says she already has everything she needs. So, she gets quiet. When the phone rings she doesn't answer it. She makes a list of the things she thinks she lacks but might require: the ability to draw, a career as a singer . . . The list or the making of the list is unendurable.

I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

And for a minute there, I lost my self.

Endless worry about tomorrow only steals joy from today.

You should never be worried about how many likes you're getting but on the life you're creating.

if you become angry over little things, the big issues are never even addressed. As

real difficulty comes when we are doing something that we don't want to be doing. For example, if we must work when we want to be home, or if we are staying home when it is driving us crazy, then our parenting will tend to be influenced by guilt, resentment, and a whole range of other negative emotions. We need to make our best choices at each moment. We can't always have what we feel would be ideal, but we can actively do the best with the options as we see them.

Be aware of what you allow to fuel your thoughts, the energy you take in and what emotions you put out and how it effects you and others..

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.