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Quotes About Mindfulness

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
~ Lisa Unger
You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.
~ Deepak Chopra
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
~ Thomas H. Raddall
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
~ Matt Chandler
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
~ Fats Domino
People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
~ Ina Garten
You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.
~ Nick Littlemore
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
~ David Alan Grier
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.
~ Nhat Hanh
The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.
~ John Pawson
It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.
~ Nhat Hanh
Meditation is bringing the mind home.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
~ Wei Wu Wei
Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.
~ Nhat Hanh
Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.
~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Don't take your bad shots home with you.
~ Tony Lema
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
~ Dogen
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.
~ Rumi
Never forget that all you have is all you need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
~ Martin Heidegger
If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.
~ Laozi