Quotes About Mindfulness

One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.