Bill Pullman Quotes

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.

You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.

It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.

Paying attention to what we allow ourselves to pay attention to is a tricky thing. It's like being in two places at once but completely worth the discipline. We can react mindlessly or respond mindfully. It's up to us.

My life includes much meditation and good energy, so my mind will stay busy.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

It was Helen Hunt who taught me to incorporate a consistent meditation practice. Her consistency - even when she was at her busiest and most public - was inspiration to me.

The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.

Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.

Be mindful even if your mind is full

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.