Quotes About Mindfulness

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

The death of contentment is comparison.

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.