Quotes About Mindfulness

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

the more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that you don't have?

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.