Quotes About Mindfulness

I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.

Self-acceptance is how to find peace with one's soul.

We are brainwashed into thinking that money is the source of happiness while what we really need to know is that inner peace is something that comes from within.

We need to be in touch with our bodies; with what feels good, what feels not so good and what feels wrong.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop....

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

Be — don't try to become

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

You must constantly beware of anything that causes you to think of yourself as a superior person.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.

Worrying always results in sin.

Lord God Omnipotent, how my soul delights to know that Thou dost care for sparrows and numberest the hairs of our head! Lord, breathe on me till I am in the frame of mind and body to worship Thee.