Mindfulness Meditation Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness Meditation Quotes & Sayings
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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
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
— Sharon Salzberg
How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
— Gautama Buddha
Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.
— Sharon Salzberg
Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.
— Aldous Huxley
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
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
When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
— 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
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
Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it.
— 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
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
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
Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.
— Roshan Sharma
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 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
Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.
— Sharon Salzberg
...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.
— Narissa Doumani
Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.
— Waylon H. Lewis
Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.
— Sharon Salzberg
Equanimity can be hard to talk about.
— Sharon Salzberg
Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.
— L.M. Browning
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.
— Frederick Lenz
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
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
I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.
— Tara Brach
Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
— Sharon Salzberg
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg
with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are. — Sheniz Janmohamed
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are. — Sheniz Janmohamed
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
Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.
— Abhijit Naskar
The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything.
— Sharon Salzberg
The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.
— Loch Kelly
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
— David Richo
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
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
You can't control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
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
So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.
— Allan Lokos
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
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
Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
— Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.
— Bryant McGill
Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.
— Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.
— Sharon Salzberg
We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.
from Chapter 4 — Mare Chapman
from Chapter 4 — Mare Chapman
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