Mindfulness Quotes

Mindfulness Quote of the day

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Only the present moment contains life.

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Stretch your mind and fly.

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Confine yourself to the present.

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

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

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