Quotes About Mindfulness

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

To be awake is to be alive.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature