Quotes About Mindfulness

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

When you don't go within, you go without.

There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Forever is composed of nows.