Quotes About Mindfulness

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.

A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

Fear focuses the mind.

We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

From the passions arise worry, and from worry arises fear. Away with the passions, and no fear, no worry.

After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Turn your eyes away from fear. Discontinue the conversations of fear if you choose to embrace the fullness of your heart

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.