Quotes About Mindfulness

There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.

A quiet mind is all you need.

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves.

To be is to suffer. The narrower the circle of my self-identification, the more acute the suffering caused by desire and fear.

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out. The "I am" is the door. Stay at it until it opens … It is only when you cannot come and go freely that the house becomes a jail. I move in and out of consciousness easily and naturally and therefore to me, the world is a home, not a prison.

Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the "I am." Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.

Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.

Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the "I" is not.

The core of Sri Nisargadatta's simple and direct message is this: focus on the 'I am' (consciousness, beingness) and enquire into its Source. In becoming conscious of consciousness itself, we may discover we are not limited to the body, mind, or any passing identity, thereby realising our unlimited nature in this very life.

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

She doesn't like looking straight at things. She's a peripheral person.

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.

We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.

We commit to the daily disciplined practices of meditation, yoga, exercise, wise actions, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, compassion, appreciation, and moment-to-moment mindfulness of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and sensations. We are developing the skillful means of knowing how to apply the appropriate meditation or action to the given circumstance.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.