Mindfulness Quotes

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

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

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

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

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

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

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

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

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

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.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because deathis a part of life.

[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there,

To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you.

Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness. Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention.

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.

There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

Nirvana is too simple an experience to be depicted by diagrams.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

We can only accept teachings that we have put into practice with our own awakened understanding and that we can see with our own experience to be true.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.

Direct experience is the only way.

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

Stay present, stay conscious.

Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment

We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.

Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.