Quotes About Mindfulness

Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Chase away sorrow by living

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.