Quotes About Mindfulness

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.