Wandering Mind Quotes

“We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mind is a drama queen that gets too embarrassed to continue acting up, after only a few seconds of getting our undivided attention.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life has a special meaning for those who wander!”
― paul sachudhanandam

“We live life passively whenever we are not practicing mindfulness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I had just enough work to do... to keep my hands and eyes pleasurably employed, while my mind was left free to enjoy the dangerous luxury of its own unbridled thoughts.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Mindlessness often leads to headlessness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The breath is the rein for the mind.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mind exists intermittently.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mind does some of its best wandering when the body’s moving forward. This is true on a bike, or on foot, or on a plane, train, or in an automobile, anything. There’s just something about steady onward motion that’s uniquely conducive to shedding any hang-ups and inviting real mental latitude. And, it seems, conversely, the mind is best at plunging forward, at submitting itself to something and following a fixed path, when the body is stationary. In a quiet room between sixty-eight and seventy-four degrees, wearing clothes that are snug but comfortable, sitting upright. Free of any distraction. Unlike out here, the room has no exigencies, so the mind makes up its own. Work, it says. Or watch, read. Dedicate me to something specific. A mind narrows in on that thing then moves resolutely toward it, doing its best to ward off anything that might interrupt or alter its course; thought is a train, consciousness a stream…”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Oh, my mind wanders down odd paths. But I don't care. Some of the paths in my imagination or so much more interesting than the one I'm really on.”
― Billie Letts, Made in the U.S.A.