Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Be content with your lot.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.

You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be.

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Ajahn Chah

First you understand the Dhamma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practice it. And if you practice it, you will begin to see it, you are the Dhamma and you have the joy of the Buddha.

Someone commented: I can observe desire and aversion in my mind, but it's hard to observe delusion. Ajahn Chah replied: You're riding on a horse and asking where the horse is?

Anyone can build a house of wood and bricks, but the Buddha taught us that sort of home is not our real home. It's a home in the world and it follows the ways of the world. Our real home is inner peace.

No whining on the yacht.

The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.