Quotes About Mindfulness

I noticed vaguely that I was getting so's I could see some good in the life around me.

Mi lenne itten, ha mindenki akkor állna neki a fogát sikálni, amikor eszébe jut?

As Wittgenstein said, "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy—not ascetically starved and despised—it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go.

I saw only the glory of green emeralds, and radiant buddhas walking everywhere, and there was no I to see any of this, but the emeralds were there just the same.

This gives the feeling, vis-à-vis time, that you are not moving through time, but rather time is moving through you (that is, through your awareness), with your being not moving at all. It's like sitting in a movie theater and, without moving from your seat, having the entire scenery move past you (and if the you is "headless," then in you).

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

ALL you are actually ever aware of is this timeless Now.

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

The Point of Power Is in the Present.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.