Mindfulness Quotes - Page 3

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

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

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

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

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

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.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

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