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Mindfulness Quotes & Sayings

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...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future. — Dan Harris

How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness. — Chris Ervin

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love. — Sharon Salzberg

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it. — Sharon Salzberg

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life! — Tony Dovale

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect. — Sharon Salzberg

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath. — Gautama Buddha

I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929. — Miranda July

We must look deep into our soul daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness. — Sharon Salzberg

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are. — Evita Ochel

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace. — Alaric Hutchinson

When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way. — Sharon Salzberg

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight. — Nyanaponika Thera

This moment is your portal to the future. Use it wisely! — Marion Ross

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter
is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you. — Brad Warner

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth. — Linji Yixuan

Mindfulness has been called the heart of Buddhist meditation. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it. — Sharon Salzberg

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts. — Sharon Salzberg

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy. — Ilchi Lee

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is real; it's not a dream when mindfulness is there. — Thich Nhat Hanh

there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. — Pema Chodron

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives. — Sharon Salzberg

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul. — Don G. Campbell

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day. — Cristen Rodgers

Feeling good about yourself is the best sleeping pill of all. — Annika Sorensen

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. — Sharon Salzberg

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together. — Nancy L. Kriseman

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates. — Allan Lokos

The heart can't beat next to a mind full of questions. — C.M. Rayne

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Philips

Mindfulness is the art of being present in the moment, without passing judgement about your experience. — Rhena Branch

Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us; it is an entity in itself. — Holly Sprink

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself. — Allan Lokos

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Stop, breathe, look around
and embrace the miracle of each day,
the miracle of life. — Jeffrey A. White

You can't control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself. — Debasish Mridha

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present. — Allan Lokos

When you practice mindfulness, you bloom like a flower. — Debasish Mridha

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher. — Vironika Tugaleva

Stretch your mind and fly. — Whitney M. Young

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow,it's about this particular moment! — Runa Magnus

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity. — Stefan Molyneux

Awakening is natural,delusion is not — Gautama Buddha

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. — S. Kelley Harrell

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment. — Frederick Lenz

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention. — Sharon Salzberg

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids. — C.S. Lewis

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on. — Matt Haig

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world. — Amit Ray

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now. — Napoleon Hill

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. — Marilynne Robinson

Don't let a day go by without asking who you are ... each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness. — Deepak Chopra

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect. — Alan Cohen

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. — Allan Lokos

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own. — Sheng Yen

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness — Ruby Wax

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17) — Victoria Moran

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. — Eckhart Tolle

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment. — Anne Williams

In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling. — Frederick Lenz

Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go. — Debasish Mridha

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness. — Nhat Hanh

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone. — John Bruna

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand. — Idowu Koyenikan

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. — Evita Ochel

To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it. — Alan W. Watts

When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life. — Allan Lokos

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier. — Sharon Salzberg

If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

Mindfulness is the cure for everything; the essence of being alive. — Ellen Langer

Injustice lives in the unquiet heart. — Nath Jones

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it. — Amit Ray

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness. — Sharon Salzberg

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world — Kelly Martin

When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing. — Frederick Lenz

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. — Daniel J. Siegel

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions. — Krista Tippett

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. — Robert Bly

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth. — Martin Buber

The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation. — Amit Ray