Mindfulness Quotes - Page 6

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

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.

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

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

Take more time, cover less ground.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

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

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.

World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

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

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.