Quotes About Mindfulness

Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

It's too late to be ready.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

We don't stop at our skin.

This tree wishes you no harm. Go around it in peace. You are hurting yourself.

The key to longevity is the purity of one's heart.

Perhaps the greatest healer is within the self and may be tapped with continued meditation, as we have suggested.

I never think at all when I write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well

The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.