Kathirasan K > Quotes

“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

“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

“Attempting to remove thoughts from your mind is similar to expecting a highway to be empty of cars. The highway is meant for cars and we shouldn’t expect it to be otherwise.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness for the Family

“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

“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 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

“In a way, we are no more than a bunch of habits.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“I define wisdom as the assimilated knowledge that the self, others and the world are connected. Wisdom is humanistic and responds in a way that promotes well-being and realises wholeness.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“By learning to pay attention to our breath, our bodily sensations as well as our thoughts and emotions, we learn to create a distance between the thoughts and ourselves.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness for the Family

“You can pay attention to almost anything in your life. All you need is an intentional mind wanting to pay attention to any experience or activity.”
― 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

“People may change, but their innate being does not change.”
― 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 present moment is free from both anxiety and regrets, as all the regrets and sorrows we carry are centred in the past, while all our anxieties and worries are centred in the future.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“You may wonder if such a thing as a perfect response exists. The answer is yes and no. A perfect response exists only as a best possible response at a given time, place and circumstance.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Mindfulness as a trait refers to the effortless mastery of being anchored in a state of awareness constantly.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Silence is like the eye of the storm which is absolutely calm in spite of the powerful whirlwind of energy around it.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The wonder that you are can only be seen in the present. The universe opens itself in front of you just because you are there to witness 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

“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

“Mindfulness cannot be practised in a cave. It requires active interaction with the world in the present. The place where you are is the place where you are meant to be and that is where you experiment. Your home, workplace and the society you live in is your mindfulness gym.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Gratitude is not just about saying thanks and showing appreciation. It is a way of seeing the world through the lens of our mind.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The roles depend on you for existence, but you can exist independent of the roles.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“In mindfulness, we learn to live with thoughts as they are.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness for the Family

“Mindful leaders consider themselves as a blank screen on which all their mental and physical activities take place. this is one reason why mindful leaders have greater resilience and control – they are detached observers rather than involved actors.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Mindfulness practices help us to disassociate ourselves from our thoughts. We learn to objectify them and stop seeing them as part of our identity.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety

“The more you fight your thoughts, the more you empower them.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness for the Family

“When we align our thoughts, words and actions with clear intention, enabled by mindfulness practices, our life can become a meditation in itself. We can then constantly bring awareness, acceptance and attention to our life with a dispositional behaviour.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness for the Family

“The first misconception that people hold is that a mindful person should have no expectations. However, this expectation of not having an expectation is itself unreasonable and goes against our fundamental nature. The issue, therefore, is not with expectations but how we deal with the results.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Saying ‘I am in pain’ is very different from saying ‘The body is in pain’.”
― Kathirasan K, Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety