Quotes About Mindfulness

Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek.

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.

Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.

So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.

There is no 'out there', only 'here' exists.

The sooner you master your mind, the sooner you master yourself.

Only by helping yourself first can you help the poor. Only by changing yourself first, can you change their condition. You achieve this by first removing from your mind any thoughts of poverty, for to think of something is to invoke it.

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

Pure potentiality is a phrase that denotes that pure consciousness is the true essence that lies in us.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.

You taught me about concentration. At first I thought that meant just being still, but I was to understand it meant much more. You meant to tell me to be where I was, not some place in the past or future. I worried too much about tomorrow.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Nothing is ever gained by allowing anger to have sway. When under its influence we lose the ability to think clearly and the forceful power that is in calmness. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 15, 1921).

When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.

Je suis persuadé que chaque fois qu'un homme sourit et mieux encore lorsqu'il rit, il ajoute quelque chose à la durée de sa vie.»

Ted, calm down—

Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life.

Somebody should tell us... right at the start of our lives... that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.   Michael Landon

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

We often think we know things when in fact it's only our imagination taking us further and further away from what is actually happening. What we imagine then seems very real to us. Soon we're caught up in our imaginary longings and loathings. But if you're here - truly present - you realize there's nothing to run from or to go after. You can stay calm...Just be with this moment and see what's going on. (9)

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them." The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.