Quotes About Mindfulness

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

And be content with such things as ye have.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

When the asana is correct, there is lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.