Mindfulness Quotes

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

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.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Wellness within is mindfulness and acceptance of what you are, what you feel inside and how it's always changing. That process is helped by being attentive to the breath as it moves through the body.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.