Quotes About Mindfulness

COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF

The extent and extenuation of your pain renders you unconscious.

Once you become willing to let it all go, God will open a new space in your heart and rewire your brain to know, receive, and express love in healthy ways. I forgive myself for believing that what I made up about who they were is the truth I had to live with for years of my life.

You have to accept that you can't change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours.

Get out of our heads and learn to experience the world directly, experientially, without the relentless commentary of our thoughts. We might just open ourselves up to the limitless possibilities for happiness that life has to offer us .

Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.

We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking

Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

In this way, little by little , moment by moment, life can slip by without us being fully here for it. Always preoccupied with getting somewhere else, we are hardly ever where we actually are and attentive to what is actually unfolding in this moment.

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it's OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

Expecta­tions can become goals, which only get in the way of the experience we are having in this moment.

According to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, when you're happy everything in life is bearable and grief and stress are just passing emotions. Happiness is not something that you feel after something good happens. It is a state of living that is present whether good things are happening or not, whether you're suffering or not.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.'   Emotions

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.'   Inner

She closed her eyes a moment, tried her meditation mantra -- F*ck this, f*ck this, f*ck this -- to clear her mind.

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through and you will grow with them.

Turb?t kol žmogus gyvas, tol jam viskas gerai.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life.

squarely now.

Life's meant to be lived blind—that's how you don't take shit for granted.

Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully—in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had opened up full-bore and was pumping enough OMG into his system that he was drowning in terror.

Still, he forced himself to think of what Mary always said about emotions. You weren't responsible for them and you couldn't control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.

concentrate to do so

about emotions. You weren't responsible for them and you couldn't control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.