Quotes About Mindfulness

I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn't keep pouring from the pitcher.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.

Your first five minutes dictate your day.

It is what I do now: not go, not see or touch.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

There is an exercise in a book I read by Pema Chödrön, an American woman who became a Buddhist nun, where you sit and concentrate on that which is overwhelming you and ask this energy, this thing, to overwhelm you totally; to consume you. At the point of total consumption, then you ask how many others are feeling this same exact thing at the same exact time and you ask to join their energy. I have found this to be the most healing and compassionate exercise.

But life has a way of teaching us that letting feelings run the show leads to all kinds of bad stuff.

Who's the boss - you or your feelings?

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Time utilization should focused on life