Mindful Practice Quotes

Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do.

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

Being in the moment is the best thing I can do.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

Yoga, in its authentic form, is a system of health for the body, mind, and spirit. Neglecting an element transforms the practice into something that is not, in fact, yoga.

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

I've been taking five minutes to sit by myself and meditate, and it's definitely something I'm going to continue doing.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.