Mindfulness Quotes

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

[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)

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.

When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.