Quotes About Mindfulness

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

True Power is within, and it is available now.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.