Quotes About Mindfulness

I will be happy with myself because I always say I don't want to think back.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting.

Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.

Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.

The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

You were talking to yourself, Udinaas. You shouldn't do that.' 'That's what I keep telling myself.

It is a fool's curse, to measure oneself in endless dissatisfaction.

But compassion was engagement, a mindfulness beyond that of mere witness

There's no point in thinking about tomorrow. Just the next hour, each hour. Stay alive, Felisin, and live well if you can.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Reformers can learn from monks, who spend countless hours cooking or cleaning the grounds or raking the garden, and can view each and every task, no matter how menial or seemingly trivial, not simply as a means to an end, which is frustrating if the final goal seems remote or unattainable. Rather, the tasks are seen as ends in themselves to be celebrated as eminently worthwhile, which paradoxically enhances their possible benefit for the future.