Quotes About Mindfulness

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one's own character.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Let reason govern desire.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.