Quotes About Mindfulness

It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

There is something about TM. It is the only time I have that stillness... It gives me this peaceful feeling-I just love it so much.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time.

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.