Mindfulness Quotes

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  • The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

    Twitter post from Aug 09, 2016
  • Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.

  • See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

    Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.24, Penguin
  • Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

  • As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

  • The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony
  • You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

    Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.202, Macmillan
  • Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

  • You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

    Home   Mindfulness   Way  
  • At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

  • Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

    David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.17, Shambhala Publications
  • Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

  • Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

    Buddhism   Agony   Mind  
  • Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

  • Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

    "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.
  • People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

    Life   People   Decision  
    Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

  • Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • 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.

    Pain   Play   Meditation  
    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.83, Workman Publishing
  • Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.14, Beacon Press
  • Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.44, Bantam
  • Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

    Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications
  • If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

    Buddhism   Mind   Desire  
  • Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

  • You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

    Happy   Beautiful   Song  
    Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Penguin
  • Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

  • Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

    Healing   Heart   Hands  
  • We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

  • The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

    Light   Broken   Water  
    Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press
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