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Mindfulness Quotes
"Love, happiness, peace - these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything."
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"To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization."
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"I'm floating. I'm flowing. I'm loving, but I'm going."
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"Worrying does not accomplish anything. Even if you worry twenty times more, it will not change the situation of the world. In fact, your anxiety will only make things worse. Even though things are not as we would like, we can still be content, knowing we are trying our best and will continue to do so. If we don't know how to breathe, smile,and live every moment of our life deeply, we will never be able to help anyone. I am happy in the present moment. I do not ask for anything else. I do not expect any additional happiness or conditions that will bring about more happiness. The most important practice is aimlessness, not running after things, not grasping."
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"We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters."
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"I'll be safe and happy when I'm no longer afraid of my own mind."
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"He looked down at her. "Have you found that peace?"Yes, she had. But it was so corny and cliched that she couldn't bring herself to admit it."A wise man once told me that peace has to come from within. We have to learn to like ourselves before we can find our place in the world."
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"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."
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"Being PresentYears ago, I attended a conference where the keynote speaker encouraged everyone to BE HERE NOW! It grabbed people's attention and reminded us that living, loving, listening, and laughing all occur in the present moment."
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"What surrounds us is what is within us."
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"And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear. He listened to the wind and the falling ocean and my voice, always with rapt attention, a concentration that almost excluded physical bodies themselves and kept only the sounds."
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"Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past or we are pulled forward into the future or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not truly alive, we are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive."
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"Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you."
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"Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity."
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"There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness."
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"Live conscious of every moment and the wonder available in it."
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"Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us."
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"During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good."
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"Looking at your day from a "golden day perspective helps you prioritize."
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"The silences weren't awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him."
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"The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?"
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"Do not take to heart everything you hear."
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"When a feeling or thought arises, your intention should not be to chase it away, even if by continuing to concentrate on the breath the feeling or thought passes naturally from the mind. The intention isn't to chase it away, hate it, worry about it, or be frightened by it. So what exactly should you be doing concerning such thoughts and feelings? Simply acknowledge their presence."
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"Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again."
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"Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions."
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"As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully."
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"The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
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"Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"Walk slowly through the world and pay attention."
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"The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."
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"So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance " and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him."
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"She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away. Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered. She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever."
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"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."
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"Always be aware of what you are thinking. Pay attention to your thoughts because they drive the direction of your life."
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"Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent."
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"There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities."
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"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."
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"Examine the energy you are sending into the world. Is it positive, loving and hopeful or is it negative, hostile and angry?"
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"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware- not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now."
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"You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the door step for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don't forget! mind your mind!"
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"Give full attention to life's moments and the images you capture will be everlasting."
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"One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than 50 thoughts flittering across the ear."
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"Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment."
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