Quotes About Mindfulness

It's easy to confuse hunger with other emotional states.

We eat so often and so much because we have more or less lost touch with the signals our body is sending us about hunger.

If it's not a mealtime and you are wondering which of two 'healthy snacks' you should buy, the answer is probably neither.

Learning how to eat better - which is quite different from going on a diet - is within anyone's grasp.

We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But this is getting ahead of ourselves. Nutrients only count when a person picks up food and eats it. How we eat - how we approach food - is what really matters.

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

don't hope next day live today

Attentiveness is hard to sustain, however. That's why backpacking remains an essential practice for me. It requires a consistent mindfulness and self-presence. It demands my keeping an eye on the trail, attending to variations in the terrain and weather patterns, noticing changes in my body as weariness rises or blisters start to form. It necessitates a reading of the entire landscape, learning to dance and flow with the interconnectedness of its details.

peace on a world scale is determined by each of us creating peace in our own hearts and minds first, and doing our best to live in harmony with the people and other living creatures around us. When we can each do that, I believe together we will then become a force powerful enough to create positive change on a scale never before conceived.

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Live every minute as if it's your last, so when you're my age, you have no regrets.

Only to yourself—a promise to live every day to the fullest despite your fears. There's always something to be frightened of, honey. Just like there's always something to be excited and happy about.

Keep breathing,' I said. 'It's a habit you don't want to break.

I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

I highly recommend enforced boredom as a way to develop your imagination. But don't take my advice; listen to Neil Young. He said it best: "There's a lot to learn for wasting time.

Don't cry over spilled milk

What if the point were not to know as much as possible but to feel as much as possible?

Many parents aren't all that accustomed to being patient and present for their kids anymore, if only because they're simply not given the opportunity to be patient and present. Jobs get in the way. School gets in the way. After-school activities get in the way. As I have learned—as I am still learning—patience and presence are muscles that must be developed and exercised regularly.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.

When we've been travelling around I've often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I've seen everything I've decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.