Quotes About Mindfulness

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

Raise you awareness and cultivate your uniqueness.

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

When we take our social role too seriously the first thing we lose is our sense of humor.

When you're judging, you're not listening. And if you're not listening, you're missing out on one of the best ways to stimulate your smart vagus pathway and turn down the volume of your stress-response system. But if you're not judging, you can listen more and feel calmer, and this, in turn, will make interacting with others much easier and judging others less necessary.

People sit in a circle, with the intention of de-emphasizing hierarchies and instead encouraging what's called "a leader in every chair."34 To create the mindfulness and focus conducive to an environment where everyone collaborates and contributes, meetings begin with a minute of silence.

The dieter will fail as long as he hates low-calorie food. The would-be athlete will fail as long as he hates exertion. The tightwad wannabe will fail as long as he views frugality as a lifestyle he has to endure, or was forced into by circumstance.

My grandmother Mamie] used to say, 'Marion, if you don't feel right, if you don't feel good, just go outside. Take care of your flower bed and forget about everything else. If it's wintertime, go dig yourself a path in the snow whether you need it or not. You don't have to think too much to plant anything or scoop snow, and your mind can go back and figure out what's wrong.' I still take her advice to this day. (From Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould)

And that one part can make an enormous difference in the lives of others, especially when we commit to a life of spiritual wholeness that's represented by looking inward with our hearts (inner disciplines affect how we see others); looking outward with our eyes (how we see others affects how we treat others); and finally, by using what we've learned practically, with our hands.

I wonder if you don't have somebody in your life that just the very thought of that person makes you feel better. It would be wonderful if you could take a minute, at least a minute every day, to think of such a person. Just think. Just be quiet and think. It would make all the difference in the world.

Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

If you ever fall into quicksand, the most important thing to remember is this: take your time. Quicksand, unlike water, will not move out of the way to let you pass. Instead, it resists movement. Flailing about will only cause you to sink deeper. But slowly gets you safely to shore. It's no accident that each episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood opens with a shot of a traffic light flashing in yellow caution mode.

And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift.

But he also fiercely guarded his time of quiet and reflection (as you will see in the following chapter), and he always, always took his time.

Maybe we make too much of a big deal about being happy. Maybe we should all just find a way to be content with life, you know? Because that's not a bad place to be. Content.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.