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Quotes About Mindfulness

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.
~ Joseph Addison
Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.
~ Byron Katie
Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.
~ Narendra Modi
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.
~ Dalai Lama
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
~ Dalai Lama
Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.
~ Deepak Chopra
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.
~ Eckhart Tolle
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
~ Seth Godin
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
~ Richard Helms
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
~ Epictetus
Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.
~ Gordon Hempton
You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.
~ Lili Taylor
By nature I'm not a brooder.
~ Hugh Jackman
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
~ Brett Dennen
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.
~ Shinjo Ito
What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.
~ Stephen Colbert
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.
~ Julian Lennon
Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.
~ Laozi
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
~ Seneca the Younger
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
~ Simon Barnes