Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't spend more than 5 minutes worrying about something that won't matter in five years.

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise.

By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

raises himself above its plane of consciousness, and standing firm in his Statement of Being he allows the pendulum to swing back on the Lower Plane without changing his Polarity.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Although, I thought I knew almost everything about camping out in odd places, I still have much to learn about the art of relaxing.

May my silences become more accurate.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

And what does Juliette think about at work? 'Why, nothing. At work I don't think, or I think about my saucepans.' Work is relaxation from home.

If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.