Quotes About Mindfulness

Your body is a temple, but keep the spirits on the outside.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Sherlock Holmes pointed out that one might see, yet not observe. That's a basic cause of much human failure.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Don't learn safety by accident.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.

Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the "immovable mind.

Act on awareness, not on thought

Be responsible with the energy put out into the universe

Clear sight results from a still mind

Don't let life get in the way of living

Enlightenment is removing all distractions

Even a genius, without spiritual awareness, is still just a great calculator

Experience is the direct perception before belief, before thoughts

Guilt cannot change the past any more than worry can change the future

Health is the art of balance, balance is the art of relaxation, and relaxation is the art of meditation

Hell has a sign over the exit door, and it reads awareness