Quotes About Mindfulness

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.

The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.

Meditation is not a process of getting rid of something, but one of opening and understanding. When

Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the way you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each of them, one by one.

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With

We note feelings and find that they last for only a few seconds. We pay attention to thoughts and find that they are ephemeral, that they come and go, uninvited, like clouds.

Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.

You will begin to see desire's impermanent nature, and you will also realize that you do not have to act on every thought or desire. You will learn that you can choose from the many possibilities of how to respond to desire when it arises, and you can discover a new kind of freedom, where you do not have to follow your desires, but can choose to behave in new ways in response to your desires.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

The Joy of Being Alive Now and then it's good to pause in your pursuit of happiness, and just be happy. —GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even a fiercer life because of our quiet. William Butler Yeats

Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion.

All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given.

Notice when you are open, how others relax their own defensiveness. Let yourself be curious, loving, and concerned. Learn to see in new ways. It's never too late to open your heart and mind.