Mindfulness Quotes

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

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.

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

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

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

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.

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

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.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

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.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

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.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

Only the present moment contains life.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

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

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.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

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

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

Stretch your mind and fly.

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.