Mindful Leadership Quotes

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Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths
“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.”
Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability
“Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Great leaders know that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Mindful leaders know how to repeat success patterns and overcome failure patterns.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Overactive ego chakras kill objectivity, but mindfulness activates the win-win leadership chakras and brings collective and shared leadership.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Mindful leadership is the art of growing by
“Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Mindful leadership is the art of growing by challenging the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imposed limits on the self.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Runa Magnusdottir
“The moment you become aware of your automatic behaviours, judging and expecting another human being to live and behave within the stereotypical gender boxes, you cannot go back to being unconscious. This is when you know you are changing”
Runa Magnusdottir, The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness

Amit Ray
“Vision + Integrity + Mindfulness + Compassion + Culture of creativity is the spiritual formula of agile leadership in this ever-changing world.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Leadership is fixing your eyes not just on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Leadership is empowering others to sit under their own vine and fig tree – developing their inner strength and collaborative strength.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Amit Ray
“Ego chakras induces spiral conflicts but mindfulness activates the win-win leadership chakras in the brain.”
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Runa Magnusdottir
“The moment you become truly aware of your automatic behaviours, something magical is about to happen”
Rúna Magnúsdóttir, The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness

“One of the key premises on which Mindfulness-Based leadership is built is that leadership is a role, not you.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Mindfulness helps leaders to constantly be aware of the culture they envision and to align their thoughts, words and actions with that desired culture.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“The vision of Mindfulness-Based leadership is where organisations are not insentient entities but rather organisms in which people thrive.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“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

“A mindful leader looks at his being (witnessing consciousness or awareness) as the substratum on which he plays his leadership role. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he does not. Sometimes he is the manager, then he might become a follower. But his awareness remains unchanged.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Being a leader is only one of many roles you might play. You also play personal roles such as a sibling, parent, child, spouse, grandparent, etc. all of these roles depend on you for their existence. But what mindfulness shows us is that your awareness can be independent of these roles.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“The mindful leader is attentive to the fact that all his team members seek happiness or well-being. That said, this is in no way a call for leaders to make their members happy at all cost.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Mindful leaders bring their attention to bear on the fact that habits can significantly affect the way they lead, as well as how others respond to their leadership.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Liking what you do is a bonus but not a necessity in Mindfulness-Based Leadership.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“For a leader, doing is as important as being, with the key difference being that a mindful leader is able to see the intimate non-separation between the two.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Doing depends on being, but being does not necessarily depend on doing. This relationship is key to Mindfulness-Based Leadership as we act from mindfulness and its practices and insights. It is mindfulness practices that inform action, not the other way round.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Intention rather than instinct is required for mindful leaders, such that our decisions, strategies and goals are born of clear intention rooted in happiness, well-being and wholesomeness.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“There is a tendency to assume that the end justifies the means. I would say that this is not true except in dire or exceptional situations. As mindful leaders, we should bring our awareness to the entire chain of intention, action and results.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Mindful leaders are more than what they do, and not limited by it. Intention completes the picture. That is the reason why behaviour should not be the sole basis for judgment.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“Leading with mindfulness is ideally facilitative in nature rather than prescriptive. Your leadership uses awareness as its compass. A compass never tells you anything about the destination. All that it does is to show you the direction. But a compass is of no use without a destination.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

“The uniqueness of mindfulness is that we are not only interested in the process of reaching a goal but also the goal itself. The means are as important as the end. The end has to be wholesome in every sense of the word.”
Kathirasan K, Mindfulness-Based Leadership: The Art of Being a Leader - Not Becoming One

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