Quotes About Mindfulness

At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

You are lucky to feel sadness.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

Yoga is the art and science of living.

Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

?Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.