Mindfulness Quotes

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the...

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

Stay present, stay conscious.

Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something d...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

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

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the con...

O happiness! O happiness! Wilt thou perhaps sing, O my soul? Thou liest in the grass. But this is th...

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a litt...

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, ...

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

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get...

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"To slave away on the pointless business of m...

The best sex takes place in the mind first

Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind...

Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like...

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

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

That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whene...

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter pray...

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

I would like people to remember of me, howinexhaustible was her mindfulness.

How heron comesIt is a negligence of the mindnot to notice how at duskheron comes to the pond andsta...

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the ...

I felt like I wasn’t living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn’t be if I’d been b...

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

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave ...

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is...

What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in ac...

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you jus...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need ...

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend...

Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it is all ...

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But d...

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I ...

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of ...

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the...

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We h...

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Pa...

As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on...

You must know that weather or not you are practicing mental prayer has nothing to do with keeping yo...

Judgement is poverty.

The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate al...

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s ...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurtu...

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective ...

There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatr...

Mindset is your beliefs about your potential, skills, strength, intelligence and choices. Through mi...

Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is impor...

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the ...

As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Mindfulness gives freedom from negative and fixed mindset to positive and growth mindset.

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

Stop over-thinking, put more energy on what you really want to do.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration.

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awarenes...

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

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

Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recogni...

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen...

Mindful living is a conscious way of living – noticing the beauty of life in every moment.

Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life...

Mindfulness is to understand that there is a no moment left to be unhappy.

The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and other...

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting ...

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover i...

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.