Quotes About Mindfulness

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.