Quotes About Mindfulness

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

When I do martial arts, I feel like its inward facing. Like, I'm improving myself, I'm getting healthier. It's almost like mindfulness for something.

I think being in the right mindset is a huge challenge for women, who often take an all-or-nothing approach to working out or eating well.

I go to the gym with a mindset to fix myself, never to break myself down.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

Our needs are minimal.

I'm not really Type A, but A minus.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings are needed because we're not fully enlightened yet. We don't need to practice the five trainings perfectly. If we know we're making steps in the right direction, that's good enough.

Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness. SUFFERING

I have arrived, I am home," can make you very happy.

Suffering has causes which can be illuminated in order to be removed

Elements like these are within us and all around us. In each second of our lives we can enjoy them. If we do so, seeds of peace, joy, and happiness will be planted in us, and they will become strong. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

We carry our past sorrows and anger and they become a kind of baggage that makes life heavy.

When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea. Please don't drink your suffering, your despair, your projects.

Debemos aprender el arte de detenernos, de impedir que nuestros pensamientos, la energía de nuestros hábitos, nuestra falta de atención y las fuertes emociones nos sigan dominando.

Cuando somos conscientes y vivimos profundamente el momento presente, los frutos son siempre la comprensión, la aceptación, el amor y el deseo de aliviar el sufrimiento y proporcionar alegría.

We can see making breakfast as mundane work or as a privilege—it just depends on our way of looking.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

it's easier to refrain from sexual activity altogether than to maintain a harmonious sexual relationship.