Mindfulness In Daily Life Quotes

#1. When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens. We become so entangled in our own thoughts and emotions that we lose contact with the bigger picture.

Culadasa

#2. Mindfulness is the continuous practice of touching deeply every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly present with your body and your mind, to bring harmony to your intentions and actions, and to be in harmony with those around you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Susan Estrich

#4. Developing the skill of creativity, like with any other skill, takes time. Do devote time to creativity. Honor its flow and its magic. Allow it to become your Life Force. Train Creativity daily.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#5. It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Alaric Hutchinson

#6. Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#7. (from now on I'll use the term "mindfulness" to refer to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality), then one must practice right now in one's daily life, not only during meditation sessions. When

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#9. Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

Richard Matheson

#10. For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.

Kim Meeder

#11. I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the two of us remained connected like the icing on one of those made from scratch cakes...

Kat Kaelin

#12. We must look deep into our soul daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Kate is right there, ready to be scooped up and loved. And I'm so tempted. She is beautiful; not just her face-her entire being is lovely. I see why Vincent is drawn to her.

Amy Plum

#14. I listen to my spirit guide.

Sylvia Browne

#15. What are other people to us? Material. The stuff of our work. Whom do we love more, the girl or the portrait, the thing we've made of her? We artists, we're not quite human, are we? We love no one.

David Gordon

#16. [T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)

Victoria Moran

#17. I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.

Warren Sapp

#18. Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

Christy Turlington

#19. There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

Frederick Lenz

#20. As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

Edward Witten

#21. Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

Christopher Durang

#22. I saw his eyes go up and he looked past me, toward the door, as if he were watching it, waiting. But there was no one there, it did not open, no one left or came in. I wondered if he was actually dreaming of escape.

S.J. Watson

#23. I feel we don't really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can't learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

Swami Satchidananda

#24. To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. It's not such a huge deal when this happens at a 7-Eleven. It's pretty huge, though, when you spend the entire job interview trying not to come across like a box of hair and you come across like a box of hair.

Augusten Burroughs

#26. You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#27. If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

Eddie Vedder