Mindfulness famous quotes

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Prayer #Mindfulness #Emptiness

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Inspiring #Mindfulness

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Mindfulness

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
-- Alan Watts

#Guilt #Mindfulness #May

Living an awakened life [...] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.
-- Alice Gardner

#Together #Mindfulness #Attention

World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.
-- Amit Ray

#Mindfulness #World

We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Focus #Meditation #Mindfulness

Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
-- Asvaghosa

#Mindfulness #Existence

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
-- Ayya Khema

#Suffering #Mindfulness

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
-- B. Alan Wallace

#Future #Past #Mindfulness

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
-- Barbara Coloroso

#Reality #Mindfulness #Problem

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Memories #Mindfulness #Unnoticed

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
-- Carl Jung

#Suffering #Foundation #Mindfulness

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan
-- Carlos Castaneda

#Tired #Mindfulness #Juan

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Mourning #Mindfulness #Today

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

#Mindfulness #Cognition #Mets

Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Focus #Tasks #Mindfulness

Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.
-- Danny Gregory

#Mindfulness #Needs #World

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.
-- David Richo

#Appreciation #Tree #Mindfulness

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.
-- David Steindl-Rast

#Mind #Mindfulness #Moments

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Mindfulness #Doorways #Infinite

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mindfulness

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Desire #Mindfulness #Moments

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Love You #Mindfulness #Innocence

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Mindfulness #Here And Now #Sensitivity

We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.
-- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#Pride #Desire #Mindfulness

The whole path of mindfulness is this: Whatever you are doing, be aware of it.
-- Dipa Ma

#Mindfulness #Path

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
-- Dustin Moskovitz

#Mindfulness #Inward #Stopping

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Mindfulness #Moments #Our Relationship

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Rocks #Mindfulness #Life Is

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Mindfulness #Welcome #Moments

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Pain #Joy #Mindfulness

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Secret #Mind #Mindfulness

By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
-- Eknath Easwaran

#Self #Mindfulness #Glorious

Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.
-- Eknath Easwaran

#Thinking #Meditation #Mindfulness

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Ideas #Mindfulness #Savour

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.
-- Ellen Langer

#Play #People #Mindfulness

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

#Healing #Essence #Mindfulness

Always make new mistakes.
-- Esther Dyson

#Mistake #Mindfulness

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
-- Gil Fronsdal

#Opportunity #Giving #Mindfulness

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
-- Goldie Hawn

#Music #Live In The Moment #Mindfulness

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
-- Henepola Gunaratana

#Mindfulness #Helping #Reactions

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
-- Henepola Gunaratana

#Mindfulness #Path #Steps

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
-- Howard Rheingold

#Mean #Decision #Mindfulness

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
-- Hugh Prather

#Frustration #Rewards #Mindfulness

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.
-- James Carville

#Mind #Mindfulness #Mouths

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.
-- James D. Watson

#Thinking #Lunch #Mindfulness

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
-- James Joyce

#Past #Mindfulness #Plunge

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Time #Yesterday #Mindfulness

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
-- John Lennon

#Mindfulness #Planning #Life Is

I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being, calling me to be all that I can be.
-- John Shelby Spong

#Thinking #Mindfulness #Phrases

Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Mean #Pay #Mindfulness

Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Powerful #Healing #Mindfulness

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Mean #Mindfulness #Attention

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Writing #Practice #Mindfulness

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

#Powerful #Buddhism #Mindfulness

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#Circles #Humanity #Mindfulness

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.
-- Kedar Joshi

#Mindfulness #Insult #Life Is

The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.
-- Larry Rosenberg

#Weekend #Practice #Mindfulness

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
-- Loren Eiseley

#Men #Mindfulness #Monkeys

Confine yourself to the present.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Philosophical #Mindfulness

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

#Mindfulness #Use #Portal

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#May #Degrees #Mindfulness

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.
-- Mary Morrissey

#Mindfulness #Today #Way

No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.
-- Matthieu Ricard

#Years #Patterns #Mindfulness

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
-- Mencius

#Heaven #Mind #Mindfulness

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
-- Michel de Montaigne

#Live In The Moment #Mindfulness #Live In The Present

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.
-- Nell Newman

#Mean #Mindfulness #Attention

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Miracle #Mindfulness #Masters

Only the present moment contains life.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Mindfulness #Moments #Present Moment

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Perspective #Enlightenment #Mindfulness

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

#Reality #Meditation #Mindfulness

Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Meditation #Energy #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.
-- Nick Littlemore

#Home #Way #Mindfulness

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

#Twilight #Two #Mindfulness

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda

#Balance #Mindfulness #Calmness

It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.
-- Peter Shepherd

#Childhood #Too Late #Mindfulness

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Mindfulness #Holy #Hurrying

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

#Life #Wish #Mindfulness

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Past #Debt #Mindfulness

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
-- Ram Dass

#Thinking #Mind #Mindfulness

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
-- Rasheed Ogunlaru

#Mindfulness #Stories #Life Story

Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness.
-- Richard Davidson

#Judgemental #Mindfulness #Attention

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
-- Richard Gere

#Meditation #Quality #Mindfulness

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

#Personality #Mindfulness

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.
-- Ruby Wax

#House #Mindfulness #Next

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
-- Rumi

#Years #Mindfulness #Minutes

You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.
-- Ryuho Okawa

#Quality #Mindfulness #Length

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

#Able #Mindfulness #Have Faith

The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .
-- Stephen Batchelor

#Acceptance #Self #Mindfulness

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)
-- Stephen Batchelor

#Sentimental #Mindfulness #Belief

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.
-- Stephen Fry

#Exercise #Bipolar #Mindfulness

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)
-- Stephen Levine

#Joy #Ongoing #Mindfulness

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.
-- Steve Hagen

#Smell #Taste #Mindfulness

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.
-- Steve Mariucci

#Mindfulness #Watches #Should

You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.
-- Susan Perry

#Mindfulness #Flow

Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
-- Swami Satchidananda

#Mindfulness #Painting #Canvas

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
-- Sylvia Boorstein

#Buddhist #Acceptance #Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.
-- Sylvia Boorstein

#Acceptance #Mindfulness #Complicated

Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.
-- Sylvia Boorstein

#Able #Mindfulness #Moments