Mindfulness Quotes

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.