Quotes about Mindfulness

I take a few moments in the morning just to breathe while I drink my morning coffee or right before I get out of bed.

Do not compare yourself to what others seem to be.

I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.