top of page
Mindfulness Quotes


"To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment."


"A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind."


"We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives."


"We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing."


"Observe your internal and external world and rise above it."


"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."


"At the end of each day, write down three things from the day you feel grateful for, and you will attract positive things into your life. Decide today that you are going to get rid of negativity in your life and let positive thoughts take root. Get your brain into a good, happy, grateful and positive mindset daily."


"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day."



"Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment."


"Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)"


"The best way to find inner peace is the practice in forbearance."


"People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning."


"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."


"You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade."


"Speak to yourself with compassion on the inside and you will radiate peace on the outside."


"You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire."


"Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating."


"Keep your heart and mind in perfect sync while bring the conscious and subconscious into unison."


"Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is "Will this last forever?"


"You don't have any problems - only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because they are your creations. Have another look at your problems: the deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness - a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that."


"When you feel overwhelmed, you're trying too hard. That kind of energy does not help the other person and it does not help you. You should not be too eager to help right away. There are two things: to be and to do. Don't think too much about to do-to be is first. To be peace. To be joy. To be happiness. And then to do joy, to do happiness-on the basis of being. So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being generous. Being compassionate. This is the basic practice. It's like if the other person is sitting at the foot of a tree. The tree does not do anything, but the tree is fresh and alive. When you are like that tree, sending out waves of freshness, you help to calm down the suffering in the other person."


"Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream."


"In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps."


"When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape."


"The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others."


"Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn."


"Appreciate the simple and little things which are felt with the heart ~ they are the biggest things in life!"


"You are here.the moontides are here.and that's all that matters."


"It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life."



"You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect."


"The mind is constantly open to repetitive influences."


"Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won't be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity."


"Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it's gone you'll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that's enough."


"The whole banquet is in the first spoonful."


"When we first wake up every morning, there's a calm in our minds. The challenge is to keep it there all day."


"Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry."


"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."


"Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power."


"One realm we have never conquered: the pure present."


"I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing."


"There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality."


"In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world."



"Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend."



"A "positive, open consciousness" means looking at something as it is, without coating it in your own ideas or emotions and, furthermore, looking for hope and potential I in it. Thus, when you consciousness is open, you can communicate easily with another person and accept positively that person's actions or suggestions. An open person fundamentally has respect for all life. Additionally, that person readily accesses cosmic information, because the door of their consciousness is open and they are able to receive needed ideas and inspiration easily This leads to new creation."


"If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary."


"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."


"There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment."


"May youalways haveopenbreezy spacesin your mind."


"Don't ever think of bad things that could happen, and you'll have a better chance of them never happening. Don't ever think about doing something bad to someone, because depending on the intensity of your mind waves, something bad could really happen to them. Think love. Be love. Breathe only love, and love you shall be. When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony."


"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
bottom of page