Meditation Mindfulness Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Meditation Mindfulness
Meditation Mindfulness Quotes & Sayings
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Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.
— Sharon Salzberg
Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.
— Sharon Salzberg
Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day
— Evan Sutter
Let the breath lead the way.
— Sharon Salzberg
When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
— Sharon Salzberg
If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn't deplete us to give.
— Sharon Salzberg
Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today.
— Sharon Salzberg
We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.
— Sharon Salzberg
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you. — Brad Warner
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.
— Alexandra Katehakis
Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg
Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.
— Sharon Salzberg
Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.
— Michael H. Brooks
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.
— L.M. Browning
I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.
— Tara Brach
When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.
— Sharon Salzberg
When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.
— Stephen Richards
The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
— Sharon Salzberg
Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
In reality, love is fluid; it's a verb, not a noun.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.
— Daniel St. Clair
The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.
— Narissa Doumani
Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.
— Sharon Salzberg
We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Respond; don't react.Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume. — Raji Lukkoor
Compassion dissolves ignorance.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.
— Sharon Salzberg
You cannot control the results, only your actions.
— Allan Lokos
Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Meditation is essential for our survival.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart...
— Narissa Doumani
To imagine the way we think is the singular causative agent of all we go through is to practice cruelty toward ourselves.
— Sharon Salzberg
Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.
— Sharon Salzberg
Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.
— Sharon Salzberg
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
— Allan Lokos
We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.
— Kat Lahr
When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer - if we take the time to stop and tune in.
— Sharon Salzberg
When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
— Sharon Salzberg
It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
— Sharon Salzberg
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
— Sharon Salzberg
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
— Gautama Buddha
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
— David Richo
It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.
— Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
— Sharon Salzberg
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.
— Sharon Salzberg
The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.
— Sharon Salzberg
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
— Sharon Salzberg
The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.
— Loch Kelly
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg
With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.
— Sharon Salzberg
You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.
— Sharon Salzberg
To celebrate someone else's life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
— Sharon Salzberg
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.
— Daniel Goleman
Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.
— Abhijit Naskar
We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.
— Sharon Salzberg
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
— Allan Lokos
...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.
— Narissa Doumani
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
— Sharon Salzberg
There is never a reason good enough to be out of alignment with peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.
— Sharon Salzberg
Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
— Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
with each measured step,we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are. — Sheniz Janmohamed
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
— Bryant McGill
Full minds create chaos.
— David W. Jones
Causing harm is never just a one-way street.
— Sharon Salzberg
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.
— Allan Lokos
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
— Sharon Salzberg
There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness.
— Lynne Cockrum-Murphy
Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
— Manprit Kaur
