“'I’M SO OFF MY TITS ON COFFEE,' Stella McCartney admits, knocking back yet another cup in the foyer of a boutique hotel a stone’s throw from her home in London’s Notting Hill.”— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, vogue.com
“If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it. This must be done at all times, during your day-to-day life no less than during the hour of meditation.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“Sit just to enjoy your sitting; you don't need to attain any goal. Each moment of sitting meditation brings you back to life.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“When conditions are sufficient, a cloud transforms into rain, snow, or hail. The cloud has never been born and it will never die. This insight of signlessness and interbeing helps us recognize that all lives continue in different forms.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“What we think we become. And if what we are becoming is any indication, we are thinking far too much about the things that don’t matter and not making room for uncertainty, for discomfort, for the things that are indeed unknown but which yield the best outcomes. The ones that are indeed larger than…”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“The older I get the more I realize that it is important to know the difference between when I should speak and when I should listen. I am not well-versed in many subjects that I care about so I listen and read to those who are.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“Learning mindfulness and increasing bodily awareness are key components of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which can help you to establish autonomy over your body in a way that is empowering rather than devaluing.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Back in 2002, Brotto, a Canadian sex therapist and researcher, started investigating the potential for mindfulness to be used to improve women’s sex lives. Over the years, her lab at the University of British Columbia developed an eight-week mindfulness course, in which women were introduced to mind…”— Tracy Clork-Flory, jezebel.com
“As it’s the darling du jour of the Silicon Valley set, Ehrenreich asks us to consider how suspect it is that that the same people who brought us the devices that stress us out are also peddling $10 a month guided meditations to counterbalance it.”— Deanna Pai, thecut.com
“I can almost bend steel with my mind. I can bend anything if I try hard enough. I can make myself do almost anything.”— Martha Stewart, oprah.com
“Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive effect on numerous psychiatric, psychosomatic, and stress-related symptoms, including depression and chronic pain.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“Anxiety plays tricks. It tells you that everything you feel is serious. Depression paints everything in black and white. Together, they skew perceptions.”— Lucy Roleff, expand-your-consciousness.com
“Having self-awareness with every single thing that enters our minds is key to filtering out the things that could cause dents and cracks in our delicate minds.”— Shelby Leinbach, thoughtcatalog.com