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Quotes About Mindfulness

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
~ Tara Brach
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
~ Paulo Coelho
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
~ Eric Hoffer
Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.
~ Susan L. Taylor
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.
~ Dalai Lama
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
~ Tara Brach
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
~ Ram Dass
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
~ Gautama Buddha
To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
~ Lao Tzu
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.
~ Shantideva
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
~ Ram Dass
What you are looking for is what is looking.
~ Francis of Assisi
Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.
~ Dalai Lama
If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.
~ Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar