Quotes About Mindfulness

A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Finding fault in others, just for the sake of finding fault, we will pollute our own minds.

Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.

My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they'll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That's why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world