Quotes About Mindfulness

The harder you run after time, the faster time goes: this is the law of the consumable. Try to stop it, and it will wear you out and age you all the more easily. Time must be caught on the wing, in the present—but the present has yet to be constructed.

On future tellers: I rather live the present than know the future.

The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one's body when one is writing.

People are so preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness that they ignore their little everyday blessings.

Embrace yourself, in these times, and acknowledge yourself for the extraordinary progress you are making, as a soul, in every waking moment.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

yoga is breaking the bond with suffering

Meditation is the natural weapon in LIFE for HUMAN BEINGS...

o my mind, get me to meet me and then onwards, mind your own business.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

Live every day like it's your last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right.

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

She thought in pictures and feelings, not words.

She did not think policeman—she simply watched and took in images, sounds, sensations.

The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I refused to worry about more than one thing at a time, and I would not let useless fretting about a problem, no matter how important, keep me from sleeping. This is easier said than done.

When you're concentrating on anything that's disruptive in your life, you really don't love anybody.

Don't complain, don't explain.

Losing weight is not about how to lose weight; it is about how to regain health.

Yoga is bodily gospel.