Quotes About Mindfulness

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.

When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.

Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits create character.

Not every person with their eyes closed is asleep, and not every person with their eyes open can see.

If you want a Coke, have water. If you want the steak, have the salmon. If you want to take a shortcut, go the long way. If you want to cut a conversation short, hear the person out. If you want to stop working, push yourself to go on for another thirty minutes. Give up the little things, not to punish yourself, but as a short prayer and to strengthen your will.

I continue to believe that we can learn more in an hour of silence than we can in a year from books.

The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.

If you only learn to master one moment in your life, learn to master the moment of decision.

If you have ever been on the receiving end of carlessness, you know it changes you.

They simply try to be all they can be, here and now, and that brings with it a happiness all its own.

Allow the ordinary to heal you.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

The secret is to stretch yourself, but not so much that you break.

Do we know how to make choices? Are we aware of our choices when we are making them? Are we conscious that when we say yes to one thing we automatically say no to everything else? Did we ever really learn to make choices?

every relationship improves when we are mindful of each other's dreams.

wants you to be fully aware of every breath of air you take, every bite of food, every smile from a baby, every word you read, every song you hear, every kiss on the lips. God loves ordinary things.

Embrace the now, and the future will be richer and more abundant because you had the wisdom, courage, and discipline to embrace this moment.

They always talk who never think.