Mindfulness Quotes

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart.

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

Let the breath lead the way.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.