Quotes About Mindfulness

Keep your life creative and simple: what needs to be done now in these three minutes? That's all you ever need to ask, and you'll never have anything like procrastination bother you again.

interrupting myself and my own dream over and over.

Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

Peacefully taking a sword to all those negative, frightening, depressing thoughts that are automatically believed… so that a great, timeless, active day can be created. A day with no time in it unless you want to make some.

how "violent" a swordsman you are going to be before your day begins. How much uninterrupted time will you carve out for yourself? Will you be a true time warrior? Because if you will, you'll love your timeless time.

People who race out ahead of life are falling down on the dance floor. They are living in their own future, which is where fear lives. But when you slow down to master this present moment, life gets fearless.

make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate your whole system of personal motivation.

Reinvention begins at the level of thought. Don't let your thoughts think you.

You can learn to clean out everything that muddies up your perception and stops you from seeing the infinite possibilities of life.

It's a lot easier to make money from this position. Byron Katie Work and Money

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future

Great ideas come to us in the shower when it's the only time in the day when we're completely alone.

It's amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all the opportunity it contains. It is said that in America we try to cultivate an appreciation of art, while the Japanese cultivate the art of appreciation. You, too, can cultivate the art of appreciation. Appreciate this hour. This hour, right now, is pure opportunity.

From now on, make it a personal commitment to notice everything that pushes your buttons. Make a note of everything that inspires you. That's your control panel. Those buttons operate

do everything right on the spot—don't put anything unnecessarily into your future. Do it now, so that the future is always wide open.

Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

We may also notice … each feeling … is transitory and impermanent. Eventually, through simple observation, our feelings, while no less vivid, will become less urgent, and will cease to have such a firm hold on our emotions and actions. We will be able to see each feeling as it arises without feeling compelled to act on it.

we pass by the joys of life without knowing we've missed anything.

Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.

Reality, of course, is neither concave nor convex, neither cold nor hot, neither self nor other. If we conceive cold apart from the rest of Reality—not only apart from heat, but apart from ourselves as well—we suffer from it.

We move through the world in a narrow groove, preoccupied with the petty things we see and hear, brooding over our prejudices, passing by the joys of life without even knowing that we have missed anything. Never for a moment do we taste the heady wine of freedom. We are as truly imprisoned as if we lay at the bottom of a dungeon, heaped with chains.

Right view is not a concept or belief. … [It] is simply seeing Reality as it is, here and now, moment after moment[;] ... relying on bare attention … before conceptual thought arises[;] … relying on what we actually experience rather than on what we think.

Buddhist writings (including this book) can be likened to a raft. A raft is a very handy thing to carry you across the water, from one shore to another. But once you've reached the other shore, you no longer need the raft. Indeed, if you wish to continue your journey beyond the shore, you must leave the raft behind. Our problem is that we tend to fall in love with the raft.