Quotes About Mindfulness

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

Chi legge è altrove.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

This is an example of the effective method of 'transforming disturbances of meditation into objects of meditation' which will be treated later.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and unshakable nature equanimity is not dull, heartless and frigid. Its perfection is not due to an emotional "emptiness", but to a "fullness" of understanding, to its being complete in itself. Its unshakable nature is not the immovability of a dead, cold stone, but the manifestation of the highest strength.

You can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.

Bir insan? gerçekten seyretmek isteyen, onun oyununa gerçekten kat?lan biri, o insan?n ancak kafas?nda ya?ayabilir.

there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.

God is not to be prayed to. Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that persons resolve.

nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence

I suspect it's a human characteristic not to know when you're well off," I said.

I suspect it's a human characteristic not to know when you're well off.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

One of our most important challenges in life is to remain mindful of who we are and what we are doing. To keep this awareness present all the time is a great support for spiritual growth. One aspect of a spiritual life is to live consciously. For that, we need to be as fully aware as possible. Without mindfulness, we end up sleepwalking through life. We act without realizing what we are doing. – 17th Karmapa

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.