Quotes About Mindfulness

The moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.