The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and…

“The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility.”

— Sakyong Mipham

Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

— Jan Chozen Bays

Awareness-mindfulness-is the first step in healing. In Counterclockwise, Dr. Ellen Langer eloquently describes how becoming more aware of our beliefs and expectations allows us…

— Dean Ornish

“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly.…

— Mark Epstein

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and…

— Nhat Hanh

The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables…

— Nhat Hanh

“If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos...You set the table, you lay the food in…

— Gustav Niebuhr

“Our habitual patterns are, of course, well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wishing for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Mindfulness and awareness are…

— Pema Chodron

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

— Brad Warner

“Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of 'Now'. Mindfulness is a self development technique that will change the focus…

— Natasa Pantovic Nuit

“Mindfulness works with continuous awareness of body, breath; feelings, thoughts, intentions. Our state of mind, our positive or negative attitude towards the world, is…

— Natasa Pantovic Nuit

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of…

— Salvador Minuchin

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

— Brian Greene

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from…

— Nolan Ryan