Mindfulness in 8 Days Quotes

“We each find our own paths to realise meaning in life. Thinking that someone else’s meaning is going to make you happy is not going to work.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The difference between seeing the bottle half empty and half full is in the attitude of the viewer.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“With acceptance, what happens is that our mind creates a psychological pause between an event and our action. That pause is the equanimity, poise and calm- ness from which we can then think objectively to act wholesomely.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“I am a work-in-progress.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The only thing you are certain of is that you are awareness and that you are aware of all that is happening to your body-sense- mind complex.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“I am not perfect, as a perfect being is but a figment of imagination.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“I am not a statue that was carved and sculpted to be a perfect masterpiece. I am still being moulded, and forever it shall be so. I am ready to be remodelled in the hands of the world’s greatest sculptor, time.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Forgiveness doesn’t mean we are validating the wrongful actions that people have done to us. All we are doing is letting go of the unwholesome feelings that we have harboured since – the bitterness and hurt that arise anew each time we recall the wrongs.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Self-compassion is as important as compassion for other beings.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“I have never experienced being a failure for being kind. Performing acts of kindness always reminds me of what I am – a human being.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Kindness is not measured by how much you did, how many dollars you gave, or how many lives you touched. The fact that you did something is good enough.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Acts of kindness are the physical demonstration of compassion, an internal feeling.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The mind is meant for thoughts. It is not meant to be thought-free.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Being mindful is not being bereft of thoughts and also not expecting the mind to be full of thoughts. Both of these wear us down.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“With mindful acceptance, every thought or experience is an unexpected visitor. We do not turn them away, nor do we expect them to stay long. Let them come and go.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Think of being mindful as being like an ocean that accepts the waters from all the rivers without rejection. It remains stable in spite of the hundreds and thousands of rivers that ceaselessly flow into it.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Every experience is a feeling or thought or sensation interpreted through our judgment. Pleasure and pain are not inherent in the sensations but a result on our personal judgments superimposed on the sensations.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“If you do see yourself as awareness, being and peaceful, wherever you go, you will be just that.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“There is no place you can be without yourself in it.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The recognition of awareness is in spite of your beliefs, not at the expense of it.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“In this mindful awareness, you are just plain being, without any identity. In this being, thoughts, ideas and perception of your body rise and fall.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“You are aware of your body, your thoughts, your senses. In the same way, you are aware of things that are outside you – the chair, the temperature, the people, the environment. All of them are in your awareness.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“This wholeness of awareness is what gives all the roles their meaning.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The search for meaning can in fact rob us of its meaning. Searching takes you away from being in the present moment.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Thoughts arise in me, but I am not the thoughts.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Thoughts are what you have, not what you are.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Thoughts are just thoughts. If we can recognise that, we should also see that thoughts are not us. To identify yourself as your thoughts – or the thoughts of others – is a mistaken identity.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The more importance we give to a thought, the heavier it gets. The heavier it gets, the more it weighs on us, and the more stress and anxiety is induced.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The mind that does not wander does not need meditation. The nature of the mind is to wander.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“Self-awareness is power. The awareness of your behaviours, emotions and thoughts has the power to induce positive changes in you effortlessly and naturally – without you having to forcefully change yourself.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety