Quotes about mindfulness

Study yourself it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi.

The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.

Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past or we are pulled forward into the future or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not truly alive we are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.

Meditation is not evasion it is a serene encounter with reality.

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.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

Mindfulness does not erase negative memories it 'transcends' them giving us back our deepest power which resides in our hearts.

Respond don't react.Listen don't talk.Think don't assume.

You are not your thoughts you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions you feelemotions. You are not your body you look at it in the mirror and experience this world through its eyes and ears. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all these inner and outer things.

Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will) being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz

The whole present moment was a celebration it always had been all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

Perfection is fragile interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.

Don't be so loyal to your mind the mind is not loyal to You.

Mindfulness and compassion can give you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher forms, thoughts, feelings, and situations into your life.

All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully

You have to learn where your weaknesses end and your strengths starts or you will spend your life focusing on all that falls apart.

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

Peace happens - It begins with me.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

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

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

Blessed are the misfits who make their own rules and stick to them for they shall inherit peace of mind

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

Sometimes all you need is a little push to change your life in a BIG way.

You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story - for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things." - R. Ogunlaru

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

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

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

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

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

The divine is in the present and you must be present to experience it. When you vacate the present and recede into your mind, allowing worries or work to remove you from the moment, you leave the plain upon which the divine dwells. When you are constantly under the anesthetic of digital distraction, you withdraw; you are no longer conscious, and therefore are in no fit state to commune with the sacred. If you wish to hear the answers you seek, you must be present to hear them. If you wish to par

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.

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

Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and

If you know how to be happy with the wonders of life that are already there for you to enjoy, you don't need to stress your mind and your body by striving harder and harder, and you don't need to stress this planet by purchasing more and more stuff. The Earth belongs to our children. We have already borrowed too much from it, from them; and the way things have been going, we're not sure we'll be able to give it back to them in decent shape. And who are our children, actually? They are us, becaus

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

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.

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, o

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

Doing the next "right thing" will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.

I am moving as one with the universe.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter.

Deep inside of you is a 'Guru' with the wisdom of the entire Universe!

Hope, positive wonders.

The mind which is reluctant to change or alter is "ME and I". The mind which is ready to get empty and altered is "BUDDHA".

How can we expect to be happy when we have no peace of mind, when our mind is constantly jumping from the present to the past? When your mind is constantly running and filled with anxiety and fear, where is the freedom? You are stuck in the prison of your mind, stuck in thoughts and feelings from yesterday, from five years ago. There comes a time when everyone has to stop, look deep, breathe and let go.

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes you on a downwards spiral, while the other upwards. One breeds toxic patterns, the other awareness. The choice is yours.

It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entre

We live in a world where it is completely the norm to worry about what we put in our bodies but worry very little about what we throw in our minds. We think a hamburger is bad but a celebrity gossip magazine is completely harmless. As children you never hear “don’t put that garbage in your mind,” but for our body counterpart it is common thread. There is something very wrong with this scenario.

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make

Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear.

Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.

Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "b

When the momentum of mindfulness is well developed, it works like a boomerang; even if we want to distract ourselves, the mind naturally rebounds to a state of awareness.

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

Positivity of Life and Negativity of Mind cannot exist together. The more you keep on adapting the positivity into your mind, the more beautiful your world will become.

When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the opposite of safety because it hardens and narrows the vision to make everything fit its own scope. Then when new information arrives which would be its ally, the mind pushes it away in favor of the leaky life raft to which it clings, sinking all the while beneath the waves of change.In fact, t

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they not?

I am the master of my mind and fate.

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life.

Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.