Quotes About Mindfulness

When we're being mindful, we're paying attention to the present moment, deliberately and non-judgementally. When we're meditating, we're being mindful of a specific object, such as the sensation of the breath at the tip of our nostrils, for a sustained period of time.

We don't stop thinking about ourselves the whole time. Even when this makes us unhappy and uptight. If we focus too much on ourselves, we make ourselves sick. We have this constant inner chatter going morning, noon, and night, this inner monologue. But paradoxically, the more we are able to think about making other beings happy, the happier we become ourselves

Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.

Thinking too much about oneself is a cause of much suffering," the Dalai Lama said. "Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear—these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra Me, me, me is not so good.

Serena smiled. "The historical Buddha who lived two and a half thousand years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha, he was a man. But enlightenment is a state beyond being male or female

We are beyond being helped, even by other more realized beings, unless we are in a receptive mental state.

How valid is a practice that frees our bodies from rigidity but does nothing for the mind?

Of course, we cannot genuinely accept others and wish for their happiness if we don't first accept ourselves.

If you help people lead more positive lives that benefit others as well as themselves, this is a good thing. Very good thing. The danger is that self-development can lead us to more self-cherishing, self-absorption, self-infatuation. And these are not true causes of happiness but the opposite.

Pain is inevitable," the Dalai Lama continued. "Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?

May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness; May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering; May all beings never be parted from the happiness that is without suffering, the great joy of nirvana, liberation; May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

The here and now. What contentment it held! Why spoil it by thinking?

The important thing is to make sure our decisions are guided with compassion and wisdom.

It is pointless to feel bad about something in the past that we can't change. But regret? Yes. This is more useful.

If any object, achievement, or relationship was a true cause of happiness, then whoever had such a thing should be happy. But no such thing has ever been found," continued Lobsang. "What's saddest of all is that if we believe that our happiness depends on something we don't currently have, then we can't be happy here and now. Yet here and now is the only time we can be happy. We can't be happy in the future; it doesn't yet exist.

thinking about the past, especially going over bad things that have happened in our minds again and again, serves no purpose.

we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again.

Enjoy the pleasures of this world, but don't neglect your inner well-being.

The power of meow?" suggested Serena as Mrs. Trinci stroked me. "Exactly," said His Holiness, chuckling. "It is the pathway to well-being and to discovering our own true nature.

From the many people around me who practiced mindfulness, I realized how essential it is to attend to the present moment, if we are to experience the rich variety of everyday life. Only by being fully awake to the present are we able to put our realizations into action- not to mention make every cup of coffee count.

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats. ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

when I really paid close attention, when my mind was open and my senses acute, I was able to find intense joy in the simplest of things.

Mind is the forerunner of all actions.

Thinking too much of happiness is suffering" the Dalai lama said " Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear – these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra me, me, me is not so good