Quotes About Mindfulness

There is no need to search . . . achievement leads nowhere . . . makes no difference at all. Just be happy now. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you think. You are already free.

Stable happiness doesn't come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get.

When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once you make your choice, do it with all your spirit. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love to his wife, and thought about making love to his wife while praying.

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous

You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

How do you know you haven't been asleep your whole life? How do you know you're not asleep right now?

Act happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Stress happens when the mind resists what is. Most of us tend to either push or resist the river of our lives, to fight circumstance rather than make use of things as they are. Resistance creates turbulence, which you feel as physical, mental, and emotional tension. Tension is a subtle pain, which — like any pain — signals that something is amiss. When we are out of natural balance, we create tension; by listening to our body, we can take responsibility for releasing it.

I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.

Finally, I realized the process of real meditation—to expand awareness, to direct attention, to ultimately surrender to the light of consciousness.

have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

As you learn to accept your emotions fully, however, without allowing them to drive or limit your behavior, you'll find it less necessary to change or fix them.

A young child responds freshly to each moment, without plans or expectations. This is a good way to fight…a good way to live.

You are learning," Serafim said, "how to think with your body—how to leave your mind and come to your senses.

If we can stop judging our mistakes so harshly, we can also stop ourselves from reactively engaging in the negative behaviors.

Emotions are like waves on the sea or weather in the skies, rising and passing of their own accord. You cannot control your feelings by an act of intention or will. So you are not responsible for your feelings; only for your response to them. Accept emotions completely, let your feelings be; just don't let them run your life.

There is no need to search;achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now!

of course, we don't love painful feelings like anxiety or depression. We don't have to love or even like them, but we do have to accept them, as difficult as that can seem at times.

The heart of accepting your emotions (and, as you've seen, of reclaiming your will) is to do what you need to do despite what you are feeling.

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.

When you begin transcendental training, focusing on your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warriors way.

Recognize that feelings fade unless restimulated, and use this to your advantage. Avoid restimulating undesired feelings.

Life is a sea that brings waves of change, welcome or not. As the warrior-emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Time is a river of passing events. No sooner is one thing brought to sight than it's swept away, and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." The Buddha, leaving behind both his protected childhood and ascetic renunciation, and having attained illumination, observed, "Everything that begins also ends. Make peace with this and all will be well.