Quotes About Mindfulness

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone.]

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.