Mindfulness Quotes - Page 8

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

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

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

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

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

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

[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)

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

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

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

With mindfulness, we can be with the experience in more immediate way. When we find ourselves flooded with an emotion that's come after the judgement, we've often missed the very judgment that triggered the emotion.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

The ideas of non-duality and mindfulness that I address in my works are things I try to practice in my daily life. Both in and outside of the studio, it's about trying to be fully present, to accept things as they are, to frame your experience in terms of a continually unfolding moment. I feel like that's directly reflected in my formal approach: utilizing a literal use of materials, emphasizing the more ephemeral aspects of the artistic process, and so on.

Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious of your consumption, what goes in and out, will help cut down on wastefulness.