Quotes About Mindfulness

When you have that contentment within, whether or not you achieve your goals, I think success becomes more likely." "The paradox of nonattachment," agreed Serena.

impulse control is critical if we are to cultivate the habits of success.

Buddha: 'Though one man may conquer a thousand men a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

happiness and inner peace. To have this person, thing or outcome in my life—how wonderful! But it is not necessary for my fundamental wellbeing.

the experience of an event depends on the mind of the experiencer, even more than the event itself.

In Buddhism"—the lama tilted his head back challengingly—"we would say that you are lazy." Sam's reaction was the opposite of his usual. Color drained from his face. "Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

The only time we can experience happiness is in this moment, here and now.

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,

Our brains physically change depending on what we give our attention to. Tayata om bekadze bekadze Maha bekadze bekadze Radza samungate soha. Om bekadze bekadze Maha bekadze bekadze Radza samungate soha. Om bekadze bekadze Maha bekadze bekadze Radza samungate soha.

even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.

It teaches us to become more aware of our own mental behavior, to replace negative patterns of thought with more positive ones.

Don't try to avoid tightness by getting into a compromised posture; instead breathe through it! Not with force but with wisdom. Use your breath to create openness. Breath by breath, subtle change is possible. Each breath is a step to transformation.

Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment deliberately and non-judgementally.

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

As long as we kept on practicing loving kindness and creating the grounds for positive future outcomes, we need have no fear of what might arise.

As outside, so within. Thoughts arose, quite naturally, and I treated them the same as sounds or smells. As always, they would arise, abide, and pass. If I didn't engage with them, there was nowhere for them to remain—they had no power to do so on their own.

Yoga means to unite. To join.

The quiet this evening is unsettling. I hadn't realised how loud life was until it all stopped.

Maybe it's not that it's too quiet now, maybe it was too loud before?

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that?

She liked to 'leave dishes to soak', an act of self-deception that I've always abhorred.

He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past