Mental Clarity Quotes

"To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to care for the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to care for the things happening around you." "The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is" "If you are aware, your body establishes clarity in your thoughts and actions." "Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally." "We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment" "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way" "Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else." "Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements " "You can live in the here and now and be free of the past." "Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries or fears. Come back to the present moment." "When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom" "Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live." "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." "I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain" "Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind." "I need to have a bit of distance from the way I personally feel about things in order to stay fresh as an actor" "The absence of alternatives clears the mind amazingly" "You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level." "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."