Quotes About Mindfulness

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.

You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.